Sallust by Ronald Syme
With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.-
Laughter in Ancient Rome
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The Greeks and the Irrational
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Shame and Necessity, Second Edition
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Development of the Attic Black-Figure, Revised edition
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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
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The Revolutions of Wisdom
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The Greeks and the Rational
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An Archaeology of Greece
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The Art of Living
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Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
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Change and Decline
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Scenes from Greek Drama
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Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
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Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
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From Homer to Menander
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The Religion of Greece in Prehistoric Times
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A Free Will
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Homer the Preclassic
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Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome
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Fiction as History
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A Greek State in Formation
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The Mask of Socrates
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Platonism
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Poetic, Scientific and Other Forms of Discourse
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Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
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The Hidden Author
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Who Were the Greeks?
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Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography
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Roman Satire
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Ovid
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The Eclogues of Vergil
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The Poetry of Homer
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Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics
One of the most distinguished Roman historians, Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989) was Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University. His books include Tacitus (1958) and The Roman Revolution (1939). In addition to numerous awards and honors, he collected honorary degrees in eleven countries on five continents. Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on Roman history, including The Roman Historians (1999), Tacitus: The Classical Heritage (1995), Tacitus (1993), and From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome (ed. 1990)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520234796 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520234790 |
| Title | Sallust |
| Author | Ronald Syme |
| Series | Sather Classical Lectures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2002-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 433 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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