Sallust: The War Against Jugurtha

by Catalina Balmaceda, M. Comber

Overview

The Roman historian C. Sallustius Crispus, better known as Sallust, decided to write about the war against the Numidian king Jugurtha, 'because it was a long and cruel struggle in which fortune swung from side to side; and secondly, because it was then for the first time that a stand was taken against the arrogance of the nobles'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856686382
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	12/16/2008
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	290
Sales rank:	522,353
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction:
1. Sallust's life and career
2. Sallust as historian- i) Works of Sallust, ii) Influence & style
3. The Bellum Iugurthinum i) the history of the war ii) Structure of the work iii) The characters in the BJ: a) Jugurtha, b) Metellus, c) Sella, d) Marius iv) Thought: a) Nobility & new men, b) Sallust's theory of virtus, c) Conclusions: What Sallust thought he was doing
4. A note on the text
5. A note on the translation
6. Maps
7. Chronological chart
8. Genealogical tables
9. Abbreviations

Text and translation
Commentary
Bibliography
Index of names and places

Editorial Reviews

This edition of Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum fills a serious gap in Aris and Phillips' list. Not only is it good to have Sallust thus available, but especially this particular text: the Catiline is far too often read in isolation, and with this edition Comber and Balmaceda make his more ambitious and more intellectually mature work easy to teach.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review - Christina S. Kraus

For the student of Latin who wants to look beyond Sallusts ever popular Bellum Catilinae, Comber/Balmaceda is the only readily available text of the BJ with commentary at any price. It will serve students of history, classicists, and general readers.'

Choice - C.M.C. Green