Sallust's Bellum Catilinae
Maps & Plans. List of Divergences from OCT Edition. INTRODUCTION. I. Life of Sallust. Date of Birth. Family and Boyhood. Political Career. Service under Caesar. Retirement from Public Life. II. The Writings of Sallust. The Genuine Works. Time of Writing. III. Sallust's Contribution to Roman Histiography. State of Roman Historiography before Sallust. Choice of Topic. Sources of the BELLUM CATILINAE. IV. Sallust's Style. Influence of Thucydides. Debt of Cato. Sallustian Traits: Brevity, Vocabulary, Grammar and Syntax, Inconcinnitas. V. The Textual Tradition. VI. Summary of the Catilinarian Consp
eBook, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007