Sallust and the Fall of the Republic : Historiography and Intellectual Life at Rome.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Introduction -- 1 Intellectual Life between Republic and Principate -- 2 "Among Intellectual Pursuits, by Far the Most Useful": History Reimagined -- Chapter 1 Digression and Historical Argument -- 1 Approaching Digression -- 2 Rhetoric and Historiography -- 3 Defining Historiographical Digression -- 4 Sallust's Digressions -- Chapter 2 Setting the Scene: Rome and Africa -- 1 Rome from the Outside: The archaeologia (Bellum Catilinae 6-13) -- 2 The African Digression (Bellum Jugurthinum 17-19) -- Chapter 3 Politics, Expediency and Thucydides' Theorem -- 1 The Political Digressions: Bellum Catilinae 36.4-39.5, Bellum Jugurthinum 41-42 -- 2 tanta vis morbi: Thucydides Vindicated (Bellum Catilinae 36.4-39.5) -- 3 mos partium et factionum: Structuring Crisis in the Bellum Jugurthinum -- Chapter 4 Windows on the Soul: Psychology, Philosophy and Sallust's Portraiture -- 1 Warped Minds: The Character-Sketches -- 2 The Ambiguity of Renown -- 3 Caesar and Cato: The synkrisis -- Chapter 5 Imperial History in the Historiae -- 1 The corpus -- 2 Geography and Genre -- 3 Geographical Knowledge in Sallust's Rome -- 4 Historical Geography and Historical Argument -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index.

This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust: it reads his works as complex and engaged contributions to the intellectual life of his period, offering a coherent and contemporary perspective on the end of the Roman Republic.

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