Table of Contents

Maps & Plans
List of Divergences from OCT Edition
INTRODUCTION
I.: Life of Sallust
Date of Birth
Family and Boyhood
Political Career
Service under Caesar
Retirement from Public Life
II.: The Writings of Sallust
The Genuine Works
Time of Writing
III.: Sallust's Contribution to Roman Histiography
State of Roman Historiography before Sallust
Choice of Topic
Sources of the BELLUM CATILINAE
IV.: Sallust's Style
Influence of Thucydides
Debt of Cato
Sallustian Traits: Brevity, Vocabulary, Grammar and Syntax, Inconcinnitas
V.: The Textual Tradition
VI.: Summary of the Catilinarian Conspiracy
VII.: Structure of the BELLUM CATILINAE
Variations from the Texts of Ernout and Kurfess
SIGLA
TEXT
COMMENTARY
APPENDICES
I.: Catilinae's Birth Date and Early Career
II.: Evidence for the "First Catilinarian Conspiracy"
SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
I.: Texts and Commentaries
II.: Books and Articles
INDEX NOMINUM
INDEX RERUM
INDEX VERBORUM

About the Author

J.T. Ramsey is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reviews

"In his commentary [Ramsey] dutifully illuminates every obscure construction, explains every figure of speech, comments on each dark point of grammar; and this reviewer is not above admitting that he wishes that he had had this commentary when he was hauled through the Bellum Catilinae in school."--Victor Parker, The Classical Review