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, but also by students of Latin prose. This new edition should therefore prove a particularly welcome addition to the series of Oxford Classical Texts.

'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

Autorentext
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 v. Chr.), der in jungen Jahren selbst eine Karriere in der römischen Staatsführung angestrebt hatte, wandte sich nach den ersten Erfahrungen entsetzt ab von einem Politikbetrieb, der ihm ausschließlich von persönlichem Ehrgeiz geprägt schien. Als entschiedener Anhänger Iulius Caesars wurde er schließlich doch Quästor, Senatsmitglieder und Volkstribun, später Prätor und Prokonsul, in welchen Ämtern er den moralischen Ansprüchen seiner Schriften allerdings nicht gerecht wurde. Nach Caesars Tod zog er sich erneut von der Politik zurück und lebte im Norden Roms in einer Villa, von der noch heute die "Horti Sllustiani" zeugen, wo er sich der Geschichtsschreibung widmete.

Klappentext

This first new edition of Sallust in 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.

Zusammenfassung
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".