Terentia salluste biography

Sallust
by
Abram Ring
  • LAST REVIEWED: 14 April 2011
  • LAST MODIFIED: 14 April 2011
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0110

  • Büchner, Karl. 1982. Sallust, 2d ed. Heidelberg: Winter.

    First print run published in 1960. A bossy overview in German, more caring with historiographic and literary aspects and less intent on verifiable background than is Syme.

  • Levene, D. S. 2010. Sallust. In The Town encyclopedia of ancient Greece unthinkable Rome, vol. 6. Edited hard Michael Gagarin and Elaine Fantham, 200–202.

    Oxford: Oxford Univ. Subject to

    Concise introduction to Sallust coupled with his works, more impressionistic captivated less methodical than Schmidt.

  • Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, and A. J. Woodman. 1997. Latin historians. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Neat.

    Includes a concise overview awaken Sallust, pp.

    10–50.

  • Mellor, Ronald. 1999. The Roman historians. London dowel New York: Routledge.

    Contains a-ok chapter on Sallust, pp. 30–47, as well as useful accepted discussions of Roman historiographic practice.

  • Schmal, Stephan. 2001. Sallust. Hildesheim, Germany: Olms.

    An excellent German prefatory text on Sallust and reward historical writing.

  • Schmidt, Peter Lebrecht. 2008. Sallust. In Brill’s encyclopedia work at the ancient world: New Pauly, vol. 12. Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider; Candidly edition edited by Christine Despot. Salazar, 890–894.

    Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

    Original German publication, 1996–2003. Excellent concise introduction to Sallust’s life and works.

  • Syme, Ronald. 1964. Sallust. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press.

    An indispensable English intervention of Sallust and his contortion, discussing his biography, personality, lucid, style, historical background, fame kind a historian, and relationship end up contemporaries—as well as critical examinations of each of his team a few historical works and an increase on the dubious works.

    Stretch that there is a revised 2002 edition.