Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline: With an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781147379617 (1147379610)
Publish date: March 16th 2010
Publisher: Nabu Press
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
Humanities,
Literature,
War,
College,
Roman,
Ancient,
Classical Studies
I have been on an ancient historians bender recently. If we judge Sallust by the standards of his fellows he is clearly one of the weakest, but so far as I can see nothing bad managed to survive the dark ages to come down to us from ancient Greece or Rome. The book is worth reading as a result, bu...
I quite like books written by ancient historians, though we must remember the purposes of the ancient historians are a little different to modern historians (though I would argue that it is not all that different). The editor argued that ancient historians tended to have different purposes, though a...
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