Sallust and the Fall of the Republic: Historiography and Intellectual Life at Rome
Edwin Shaw
"This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust, which places him at the centre of the rich intellectual world of late Republican Rome. Drawing on the evidence of Sallust's digressions in particular, and in contrast to previous views of his work as purely moralistic or unsophisticated, it argues that Sallust uses his historiography to advance a coherent set of ideas about the political chaos he saw around him, and to participate in the broader debates which characterised his period. It also offers a new perspective on the argumentative qualities of classical historiography more widely"--
ISBN : 9789004501713
ISBN : 9789004501713
সাল:
2021
প্রকাশক:
Brill
ভাষা:
english
ISBN 10:
9004501711
ISBN 13:
9789004501713
ফাইল:
PDF, 4.02 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2021