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Sallust

-86–-35

Sallust was a Roman historian whose works examine ambition, corruption and crisis in the late Republic.

Sallust wrote monographs on the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, as well as a fragmentary history. His compact, moralising style presents Roman politics as a struggle between public virtue, personal ambition and institutional decay.

For the site, Sallust belongs in Classical for pages on Catiline, Jugurtha, Marius, senatorial corruption and late Republican political culture. His works are especially useful for fiction about Rome before Caesar’s dominance.

Periods and events

Ancient Rome Roman Republic Sullan Civil War and Proscriptions Ancient World Catilinarian Conspiracy Late Roman Republic

Non Fiction

Non Fiction by Sallust (1 book)

Reference works, biographies and other non-fiction are kept separate from the historical novels above.