After the past : Sallust on history and writing history / Andrew Feldherr.
After the past : Sallust on history and writing history / Andrew Feldherr.
After the past : Sallust on history and writing history / Andrew Feldherr.
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Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
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G 2021/0206
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English
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Physical content
x, 318 pages ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Lives and Times -- Words and Deeds -- Pity and Envy: The Emotions in Sallustian Historiography -- Tragic Jugurtha: Numidia, New Media, New Medeas -- Lines in the Sand: The Representation of Space in the Jugurtha -- Brevitatis Artifex: Sallust as Text.
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Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
2021.
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"The most important modern treatment of the 'revolution' that ended the last Roman Republic concludes as follows: 'For power he [sc. Augustus] had sacrificed everything; he had achieved the height of all mortal ambition and in his ambition he had saved and regenerated the Roman People,' (Syme 1939, 524). Sallust, the Roman historian whose first exp...
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After the past : Sallust on history and writing history / Andrew Feldherr.
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Sallust on history and writing history
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Blackwell-bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and indexes.
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G 2021/0206
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74VKaOkKpoaZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaOkKpoaZ
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ISBN
1119076706
9781119076704
DDC
937.0507202
MMS ID
991024379719602626
