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Sallust Catilina, Iugurtha, Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta, Appendix Sallustiana
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Description for Sallust Catilina, Iugurtha, Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta, Appendix Sallustiana
Hardcover. A collection of the writings of Sallust, renowned in the latter half of the first century BC for his prose. The volume contains the text of two of his best-known works as well as more than 70 extracts from his "Histories". Editor(s): Reynolds, Leighton; Reynolds, L. D. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356.
This new edition of Sallust, the first critical text for over thirty years, is based on a fresh study and collation of the manuscripts, as well as careful consideration of the indirect tradition. Besides the well-known Catiline and Jugurtha, the volume contains more than seventy of the longer or more interesting fragments of the Histories and also the spurious Epistulae ad Caesarem and Invectivae. These inclusions will prove extremely valuable to students and scholars alike. The works of Sallust, written in the latter half of the first century BC, are commonly studied not only by classicists and ancient historians, ... Read more
This new edition of Sallust, the first critical text for over thirty years, is based on a fresh study and collation of the manuscripts, as well as careful consideration of the indirect tradition. Besides the well-known Catiline and Jugurtha, the volume contains more than seventy of the longer or more interesting fragments of the Histories and also the spurious Epistulae ad Caesarem and Invectivae. These inclusions will prove extremely valuable to students and scholars alike. The works of Sallust, written in the latter half of the first century BC, are commonly studied not only by classicists and ancient historians, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Language
Latin
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Classical Texts
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198146674
SKU
V9780198146674
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Reviews for Sallust Catilina, Iugurtha, Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta, Appendix Sallustiana
'as one reads through the opening of the new Oxford Classical Text of Sallust, it swiftly becomes clear that the editing of Rome's first great historian has been entrusted to the hands of a true professional' S.P. Oakley, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, The Classical Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, 1993