After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History

ISBN-13: 9781119076704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Andrew Feldherr

Spis treści

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 Lives and Times 182 Words and Deeds 523 Pity and Envy: The Emotions in Sallustian Historiography 974 Tragic Jugurtha: Numidia, New Media, New Medeas 1365 Lines in the Sand: The Representation of Space in the Jugurtha 1686 Brevitatis Artifex: Sallust as Text 213Epilogue 268Abbreviations 284Bibliography 285Index of Passages 301Index 309

O autorze

Andrew Feldherr is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He works on Latin Literature, with a particular interest in historiography and the poetry of the Augustan period. A main focus of his work has been on how political and social forces transform conceptions of the function of literature during the Roman Republic and Empire.