Sallust (Sather Classical Lectures). With a new Foreword by Ronald Mellor.

Syme, Sir Ronald:

ISBN 10: 0520234790 / ISBN 13: 9780520234796

Published by University of California Press. 05.06.2002., 2002

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LII., 381 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - PREFACE: It was the rule among the classic historians of China to keep their personal statement for the end. They preferred the facts to speak. Nor need a preface be long, unless the author has been abnormally incompetent or expects dull readers. -- Sallust was a senator before he became a writer. It is expedient to provide the social and historical setting of his life and works in some detail. Of the writings, most space goes to the Bellum Catilinae, for two reasons: Sallust was close in time to that trans-action, and the abundant testimony on other record permits one to assess his accuracy and his integrity. -- Sallust was able at the same time to admire both Cato and Caesar. He detested the Triumvirs and passed censure on their rule, sharp and courageous. On that count he here earns a favourable presentation. Perhaps too favourable, as can happen when ne believes that a historian has been maligned or misunderstood. -- None the less, I should not have been bold enough to take on Sallust had there not come an impulsion as amicable as it was urgentthe invitation to deliver the Sather Classical Lectures. Xot that this book bears much resemblance to the six discourses presented in the autumn of 1959. It is an equivalent, in a different mode of exposition. Indeed, Chapters XII-XV were not finished until the years end, being composed in that ambience of industry tempered with ease and elegance which visitors to Berkeley recall with affection. ISBN 9780520234796 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 635 15,2 x 2,8 x 22,9 cm, Bibliotheksbindung des Paperbacks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sallust (Sather Classical Lectures). With a new Foreword by Ronald Mellor.
• Publisher: University of California Press. 05.06.2002.
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520234790
• ISBN 13: 9780520234796
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Reprint von 1964.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 635 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Klassische Philologie

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Synopsis

With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust-whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian-in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.

About the Author

One of the most distinguished Roman historians, Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989) was Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University. His books include Tacitus (1958) and The Roman Revolution (1939). In addition to numerous awards and honors, he collected honorary degrees in eleven countries on five continents. Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on Roman history, including The Roman Historians (1999), Tacitus: The Classical Heritage (1995), Tacitus (1993), and From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome (ed. 1990)