Description
Book SynopsisProvides a unique and accessible understanding of Sallust and his influence on writing the history of Rome
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (''Sallust'', 86-35 BCE) is the earliest Roman historian from whom any works survive. His two extant writings chronicle crucial moments of a political, social, and ethical revolution with profound consequences for his own life and those of his audience. After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History examines what it meant to write the history of contentious eventsCatiline's famous rebellion in 63 BCE and the war waged against the North African king Jugurtha fifty years earlierwhile their effects were still so vividly felt.
One of the first book-length treatments of Sallust in over fifty years, the text offers a comprehensive reading of Sallust's works using the tools of narratology and intertextual analysis to reveal the changing functions of historiography at the end of the Roman Republic. Author Andrew Feldherr's co
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Lives and Times 18
2 Words and Deeds 52
3 Pity and Envy: The Emotions in Sallustian Historiography 97
4 Tragic Jugurtha: Numidia, New Media, New Medeas 136
5 Lines in the Sand: The Representation of Space in the Jugurtha 168
6 Brevitatis Artifex: Sallust as Text 213
Epilogue 268
Abbreviations 284
Bibliography 285
Index of Passages 301
Index 309
