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Sallust and the Fall of the Republic
Historiography and Intellectual Life at Rome
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Edwin Shaw
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
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About this book
This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome. Drawing on the evidence of Sallust’s digressions in particular, and in contrast to previous views of his work as purely moralistic or unsophisticated, it argues that Sallust uses his historiography to advance a coherent set of ideas about the political chaos he saw around him, and to participate in the broader debates which characterised his period. It also offers a new perspective on the argumentative qualities of classical historiography more widely.
Author / Editor information
Edwin Shaw received his PhD from University College London (2015), and is Lecturer in Roman History and Ancient Languages at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in Roman Republican history and Latin prose literature, particularly historiography.
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eBook published on:
November 29, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9789004501737
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Main content:
506
eBook ISBN:
9789004501737
Keywords for this book
Roman historiography; Classical historiography; Roman history; Roman politics; Late Republican Rome; Classical rhetoric; Intellectual history; Roman political thought; Digressions; Classical ethnography; Classical geography; Triumviral period
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This book will be useful for academics, post-graduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Roman history or classical historiography (and libraries covering these subjects).
