Sallust's works, particularly "Conspiracy of Catiline" and "The Jugurthine War," delve into the political intrigues and moral decay of Roman society. In "Conspiracy of Catiline," Sallust narrates the plot led by Lucius Sergius Catilina to overthrow the Roman Republic, highlighting themes of ambition, corruption, and the struggle between the elite and the common people. His vivid portrayal of characters and events serves as a reflection on the moral failings of his contemporaries, making it...

Sallust's "History of Catiline's Conspiracy" presents a gripping narrative that investigates the political turmoil of late Roman Republic, focusing on the failed coup led by Lucius Sergius Catilina in 63 BCE. Written in a concise and vivid prose style characteristic of Sallust, the text employs a moral viewpoint deeply influenced by his belief in the decay of Roman values and the moral responsibilities of citizenship. Through detailed accounts and sharp characterizations, Sallust examines ...

Sallust'Äôs "The Catiline Conspiracy" is a masterful historical account that delves into the political machinations and social unrest of late Republican Rome, particularly during the tumultuous year of 63 BCE. With a meticulous narrative style, Sallust employs a concise, vigorous prose that reflects both urgency and depth, making the complex web of conspiracies and moral dilemmas accessible to the reader. The work stands as a crucial primary source for understanding Roman history, showcasi...

In his incisive work, "History of Catiline's Conspiracy," Sallust delves into the political turmoil of late Republican Rome, vividly narrating the dramatic events surrounding the infamous conspiracy led by Lucius Sergius Catilina in 63 BCE. Sallust's succinct and penetrating prose exemplifies the literary style of Roman historiography, marked by a blend of moral reflection and political analysis. The text serves as both a historical chronicle and a moral treatise, revealing the decay of Ro...

Sallust (86–c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline’s War tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc led by L. Sergius Catilina, who plotted to assassinate numerous senators and take control of the government, but was thwarted by Cicero. Sallust’s vivid account of Roman public life shows a Republic in decline, prey to moral corruption and inte...

Embark on a compelling journey through the intricate tapestry of Roman history with 'Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic – 3 Classic Ancient History Manuscripts.' This anthology reunites three venerable literary figures of the ancient world—Sallust, Emperor Augustus, and Cornelius Tacitus—to explore the complexity, grandeur, and eventual decline of one of history's greatest republics. The collection offers a nuanced portrayal of Rome's sociopolitical evolution through diverse narrative sty...

The Greatest Classics of Roman Literature gathers the capacious record of Rome's imaginative, political, philosophical, and historical self-fashioning. Epic, lyric, elegy, satire, comedy, romance, oratory, memoir, technical prose, natural inquiry, biography, and historiography appear in illuminating proximity. Monumental narratives of foundation and empire stand beside intimate poems of desire, severe moral reflections, theatrical social observation, and accounts of military and civic powe...

The Glory of Greece & Rome gathers twenty-four volumes of historical writing into a capacious panorama of the classical world and its afterlives. Military narrative, political analysis, biography, geography, ethnography, imperial chronicle, and philosophical reflection coexist here, tracing the movement from Greek city-states to Roman dominion. Vivid accounts of war and civic crisis stand beside searching examinations of power, character, religion, and cultural encounter, revealing why Gre...

The Real Story of Rome gathers fifteen foundational historical works to chart Rome's emergence, expansion, and transformation across republic, empire, and late antiquity. Moving between annalistic narrative, biography, ethnography, military analysis, political invective, and geographical description, the volume reveals that Roman history was never a single story. Accounts of civil discord, imperial power, frontier warfare, Jewish-Roman conflict, and the moral burdens of rule stand beside p...

An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the city and murder its leading politicians. The attempted coup culminated with the unmasking of t...

Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War presents two sharply focused historical monographs on the moral and political crisis of the late Roman Republic. In compressed, archaizing Latin and with a taste for psychological portraiture, Sallust transforms episodes of sedition and imperial corruption into meditations on ambition, avarice, and civic decay. Catiline's failed conspiracy and Rome's protracted war against Jugurtha become exemplary narratives, situated between Thucydi...

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, or "Sallust" (86BC - 35BC) was a Roman historian and politician, from a well-known plebian family. Sallust was a lifelong opponent of the old Roman Aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar.Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have The Catiline Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War (about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE), and the Histories (of which only a f...