Sallust: Catiline's War, Jugurthine War, Histories

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Sallust: Catiline's War, Jugurthine War, HistoriesPenguin Classics Sallust (86c. 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 Catilines 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. Sallusts vivid account of Roman public life shows a Republic in

coyly ignoring the sexual aspect

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an all-powerful queen to the gods

χορεύουν και γιορτάζουν αυτή τη σπουδαία στιγμή απελευθέρωσης από τον φόβο και την αρρώστια

author of a work on Greek philosophy

Πλήθων

The lawgiver was a man of special status

the poet of the Iliad

an alphabetical ‘Glossary’ explaining the most common terms in Spanish and Spanglish appearing in each play

Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche

The volume's Introduction situates this text within Cicero's intellectual development and ancient reflection about the gods

translation and commentary contains the first detailed commentary on this speech