2002, ISBN: 9780520234796

University of California Press, 05.06, LII., 381 Seiten / p. 15,2 x 2,8 x 22,9 cm, Bibliotheksbindung des Paperbacks. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber… More...

University of California Press, 05.06, LII., 381 Seiten / p. 15,2 x 2,8 x 22,9 cm, Bibliotheksbindung des Paperbacks. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - PREFACE: It was the rule among the classic historians of China to keep their personal statement for the end. They preferred the facts to speak. Nor need a preface be long, unless the author has been abnormally incompetent or expects dull readers. -- Sallust was a senator before he became a writer. It is expedient to provide the social and historical setting of his life and works in some detail. Of the writings, most space goes to the Bellum Catilinae, for two reasons: Sallust was close in time to that trans-action, and the abundant testimony on other record permits one to assess his accuracy and his integrity. -- Sallust was able at the same time to admire both Cato and Caesar. He detested the Triumvirs and passed censure on their rule, sharp and courageous. On that count he here earns a favourable presentation. Perhaps too favourable, as can happen when ne believes that a historian has been maligned or misunderstood. -- None the less, I should not have been bold enough to take on Sallust had there not come an impulsion as amicable as it was urgent?the invitation to deliver the Sather Classical Lectures. Xot that this book bears much resemblance to the six discourses presented in the autumn of 1959. It is an equivalent, in a different mode of exposition. Indeed, Chapters XII-XV were not finished until the year?s end, being composed in that ambience of industry tempered with ease and elegance which visitors to Berkeley recall with affection. ISBN 9780520234796Klassische Philologie 2002, [PU: University of California Press]<