Sallust: Volume 33

by Ronald Syme

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520234790
• ISBN13: 9780520234796
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"