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Historical person
87 BCE–36 BCE
Sallust was a Roman politician and historian of the late Republic. His works on the Catilinarian conspiracy and the Jugurthine War connect military and political crises with corruption, ambition and the erosion of republican values.
In Fiona Forsyth’s Rome’s End, Lucius Sestius Quirinalis is an ambitious young lawyer whose family has taken up a case against the historian Sallust for corruption during his governorship of Africa.
In non-fiction, Sallust is discussed in Sallust’s Catiline’s War, the Jugurthine War, Histories. Sallust’s Catiline’s War, the Jugurthine War, Histories approaches the subject through political ambition and government and empire, conquest and resistance.
Historical context
Series
The Lucius Sestius Mysteries follow the historical Roman senator Lucius Sestius Quirinalis through the destruction of the Republic and the consolidation of Augustus’s principate. Beginning as a young lawyer under Julius Caesar, Forsyth’s Lucius is repeatedly drawn into murder inquiries whose evidence threatens the political settlement of the…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
