Sallust: The War Against Jugurtha

by Balmaceda, Catalina; Comber, M.

• ISBN13: 9780856686375
• ISBN10: 0856686379
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-12
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

For Sallust, the Jugurthine War clearly revealed the problems of the Republic at that time. Sallust is determined to illustrate decay, and with a successful choice of words and phrases he will achieve not only a powerful exposition of the nature and propagation of political decline, but also the congruence between the sickly condition of the state and the mores of its citizens.

Author Biography

Michael Comber (1944-2004) was a classics scholar who taught at the University of Oxford. Catalina Balmaceda completed her D.Phil. in Classics at Oxford and now teaches at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Sallust's life and career	p. 1
Sallust as historian	p. 2
The works of Sallust	p. 2
Influences and style	p. 3
The Bellum Iugurthinum	p. 6
The history of the war	p. 6
Structure of the work	p. 9
The characters in the BJ	p. 10
Jugurtha	p. 10
Metellus	p. 13
Sulla	p. 14
Marius	p. 15
Thought	p. 18
Nobility and New Men	p. 18
Sallust's theory of virtus	p. 20
Conclusions: what Sallust thought he was doing	p. 26
A note on the text	p. 28
A note on the translation	p. 28
Maps	p. 29
Chronological chart	p. 31
Genealogical tables	p. 33
Abbreviations	p. 35
Text and Translation	p. 37
Commentary	p. 188
Bibliography	p. 271
Index of names and places	p. 276
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