Appendix Sallustiana
Appendix Sallustiana ( Latin "Appendix to Sallust") is the modern name of a corpus of several small writings that were ascribed to the Roman historian Sallust (86–35 / 34 BC).
The corpus consists of two font groups:
- Epistulae ad Caesarem senem de re publica : Two letters with political advice to Caesar .
- Invectivae : Two speeches, one by Sallust against Cicero and one counter-speech by Cicero.
In ancient times and in the Middle Ages , these scripts were considered authentic, i.e. H. written by Sallust or Cicero. It was not until the 16th century that scholars expressed doubts about authorship: In his work Egnatius sive Quaestura Ciceronis (Venice 1537), the humanist Sebastiano Corrado supported the thesis that the Invectivae came neither from Sallust nor from Cicero, but from an anonymous author later. In the late 19th century, the philologists Hans Wirz and Richard Reitzenstein proved that the writings were written by two different authors and that they were of great rhetorical quality.
The Epistulae (also Suasoriae ) are in the Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3864 (9th / 10th century) together with speeches that are taken from the other writings of Sallust, under the heading C. Crispi Sallusti orationes excerpte de historiis incipit feliciter . The two letters to Caesar are not dealt with in ancient literature. Their authenticity is controversial in research, but is largely rejected. Robert von Pöhlmann proved at the beginning of the 20th century that the Epistulae influenced the social, economic and political conditions in Rome around 44 BC. Very aptly. In 1993 Walter Schmid advocated Sallust's authorship in his book Frühschriften Sallusts im Horizont des Gesamtwerk . However, its results are not widely accepted.
literature
- Text editions and translations
- C. Sallustius Crispus: Catilina, Iugurtha, Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta; Appendix Sallustiana . Edited by LD Reynolds , Oxford 1991.
- Sallust: Invective and Episteln , ed., Trans. and come by Karl Vretska . 2 vol., Heidelberg 1961.
- Sallust: works. Latin and German , ed., Transl. and ext. by Werner Eisenhut and Josef Lindauer . 3rd edition, Düsseldorf 2006.
- Anna A. Novokhatko (Ed.): The invectives of Sallust and Cicero: Critical edition with introduction, translation, and commentary , Berlin / New York 2009.
- Secondary literature
- Gino Funaioli : Sallustius (10): Controversial Sallustiana. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IA, 2, Stuttgart 1920, Sp. 1932-1938.
- Unto Paananen: The authenticity of the “pseudosallustic” scripts . In: Historiallinen Arkisto 68 (1975), pp. 22-68.
- Walter Schmid: Sallust's early writings in the horizon of the complete works . Neustadt / Aisch 1993.
- Critical review by DS Levene. In: Gnomon 70 (1998), pp. 252-254.
Individual evidence
- ↑ First apparently used by Alfons Kurfess in the review of an edition of Sallust, Socrates . Volume 8 (1920), p. 320. He later used this title as the basis for his Sallust edition (Teubner, 1950–1958).