After the Past

[b]Provides a unique and accessible understanding of Sallust and his influence on writing the history of Rome[/b] Gaius Sallustius Crispus (‘Sallust’, 86-35 BCE) is the earliest Roman historian from whom any works survive. His two extant writings chronicle crucial moments of a political, social, and ethical revolution with profound consequences for his own life and those of his audience. [i]After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History[/i] examines what it meant to write the history of contentious events—Catiline’s famous rebellion in 63 BCE and the war waged against the North African king Jugurtha fifty years earlier—while their effects were still so vividly fel…