Classics S: The Jugurthine War/The Conspiracy of Catiline (Paperback)

from la2bkk

This book presents Sallust's well written accounts of two lesser known but interesting events in Republican Rome- the war with Jugurtha and the Catilinian conspiracy. Sallust's description of the former is the most important source material known. As to the latter, only Cicero's account is as imp...

from booksontrial

With a few changes in names, the whole story of "The Jugurthine War" can perhaps be transplanted from 110 BC Rome to the 20th century, or any other period in history, when there are global/central super powers, local tyrants/warlords and puppet governments."The Conspiracy of Catiline" is a tale o...

from EricCostello

Pretty much a slanted, and not terribly accurate, view of the titular war and conspiracy. The translator does a good job of putting things in context, and alerting the reader to the fact that Sallust, a piece of work in and of himself, may not be giving you the whole story. The accounts are reada...

from antiquary

Interesting as giving the only major account of Cataline independent of Cicero

from AlexTheHunn

I studied Latin for four years in high school. Additionally, I was always terribly interested in history. So it came a complete shock to me when I read this book - a fairly significant uprising, a minor war Rome fought, that I had never heard mentioned. Fifteen years later, perhaps I understand w...