De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac Bello Iugurthino historiæ
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac Bello Iugurthino historiæ
- Jaar:
- 1556
- Onderwerp:
- Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD)
16th Century (1501-1600)
History
Politics
War
Rhetoric
Holy Roman Empire - Taal:
- Latijn
- Uitgever:
- Leiden Vincentius 1556
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 C2.61 09F24 (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- 263-[45] pages bound in white velum, oversized bowed cover, manuscript annotations
- Nota:
- "On the conspiracy of L. Sergius Catiline, and the history of the Jugurthine war. With some others, which the following page will tell."
Lucius Sergius Catilina was a Roman politician and soldier. He is best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to violently seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC.
De bello Iugurthino (also: Bellum Iugurthinum) is Sallust's second historical monograph after De coniuratione Catilinae. The work deals with the events of the war waged by Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix in 111-106 BC against the Numidian king Jugurtha and was written around 40 BC. The main theme of the work is not so much the description of the Jugurthine War, but rather the presentation of certain internal political conditions in Rome. Above all, the contrast between the nobility and the plebeians, the unpleasantness of party fights and the civil wars are discussed. At the end of his explanations, Sallust puts forward the thesis that the decline of the commonwealth was due to the politicians' striving for power.
Introduction: biography of the author
digitalized edition of the same year 1556, edited in Gent: lib.ugent.be/catalog/rug01:001740039 - Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000002460