8121 Harvard University Press & William Heinemann 1971 Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket Hardcover Upper corners bumped. Scholar's name to ffep (Nanci DeBloois). Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing with light chipping along edges. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 116; 560 pages; Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 34 BCE) of Amiternum, after a wild youth became a supporter of Julius Caesar. He was tribune in 53; expelled from the Senate in 50; was quaestor in 49, praetor in 46. He saw Caesar triumph in Africa and became governor of Numidia, which he oppressed. Later in Rome he laid out famous gardens, retired from public life, and wrote a monograph on Catiline's conspiracy and one on the war with Jugurtha (both extant) , and a history of Rome 7867 BCE (little survives). Though biased, Sallust's extant work is valuable. It shows lively characterisation (in speeches after Thucydides' manner) and attempts to explain the meaning of events. The work on Catiline has been called a study in social pathology. Sallust's style anticipates that of the early Empire. 0674991281 $20.00USD
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