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Sallust: The Jugurthine War (Classical Texts)
Catalina Balmaceda
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The Roman historian C. Sallustius Crispus, better known as Sallust, decided to write about the war against the Numidian king Jugurtha, 'because it was a long and cruel struggle in which fortune swung from side to side; and secondly, because it was then for the first time that a stand was taken against the arrogance of the nobles'. For Sallust, the Jugurthine War clearly revealed the problems of the Republic at that time. The fact that a man such as Jugurtha could rise to power by buying Roman military and civil officials ... Read more
The Roman historian C. Sallustius Crispus, better known as Sallust, decided to write about the war against the Numidian king Jugurtha, 'because it was a long and cruel struggle in which fortune swung from side to side; and secondly, because it was then for the first time that a stand was taken against the arrogance of the nobles'. For Sallust, the Jugurthine War clearly revealed the problems of the Republic at that time. The fact that a man such as Jugurtha could rise to power by buying Roman military and civil officials ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856686382
SKU
V9780856686382
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About Catalina Balmaceda
Michael Comber (1944-2004) was a classics scholar who taught at the University of Oxford. Catalina Balmaceda did her D.Phil. in Classics at Oxford and now teaches at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Reviews for Sallust: The Jugurthine War (Classical Texts)
This edition of Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum fills a serious gap in Aris and Phillips' list. Not only is it good to have Sallust thus available, but especially this particular text: the Catiline is far too often read in isolation, and with this edition Comber and Balmaceda make his more ambitious and more intellectually mature work easy to teach. For the ... Read more