The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

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The Conspiracy of Catiline includes the historical narrative of the unforgettable year 63. Sallust takes on the generally conventional belief of Catiline, and defines him as the methodical enemy of law, order and ethics, and does not give a full discussion of his viewpoints and motivations.

Sallust’s Jugurthine War is a monograph of the battle against Jugurtha in Numidia from c. 112 BC to 105 BC. Its real worth is found in the overview of Marius and Sulla to the Roman political act and the start of their enmity. Sallust’s period as governor of Africa Nova had to let the writer acquire a strong geographical and ethnographical history to the war.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, often anglicized as Sallust, was a Roman historian, politician, and novus homo from an Italian plebeian family. Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines and was a popularis, an adversary of the ancient Roman peers of the realm, all through his hurtle, and then a partisan of Julius Caesar. Sallust is the first recognized Roman historian with existing writings to his name, of which Catiline’s War, The Jugurthine War, and the Histories where only portions are still surviving. Sallust was mainly inspired by the Greek historian Thucydides and accrued an enormous including some ill-gotten possessions from his governorship of Africa.

Sallust was perhaps born in Amiternum in Central Italy, although Eduard Schwartz opines that Sallust was born in Rome. His date of birth is counted from the record of Jerome’s Chronicon. But Ronald Syme of New Zealand proposes that Jerome’s date must be accustomed because of his inaccuracy, and implies 87 BC as a more precise date. Yet, Sallust’s birth is largely dated at 86 BC, and the Kleine Pauly Encyclopedia takes October 1, 86 BC as the date of birth. Michael Grant carefully suggests 80s BC.
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