De bello Iugurthino
The beginning of the Bellum Iugurthinum with glosses in the manuscript Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus Palatinus lat. 883, fol. 21r (12th century)
De bello Iugurthino isthe second historical monograph by Sallust after De coniuratione Catilinae . The work deals with the events of the war that Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix 111-106 BC. Against the Numid king Jugurtha , and is around the year 40 BC. BC originated.
The main theme of the work is not so much the description of the Yugurthine War , but rather the demonstration of certain domestic political conditions in Rome. Above all, the contrast between the nobility and plebeians , the mischief of party struggles and civil wars are discussed.
At the end of his remarks, Sallust puts the thesis that the decline of the community is due to the power of the politicians.
See also
- Arco dei Fileni (Triumphal Arch in Libya)
Text editions and translations
- C. Sallustius Crispus: Catilina, Iugurtha, Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta; Appendix Sallustiana. Edited by LD Reynolds , Oxford Classical Texts , Oxford 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-814667-4 .
- C. Sallustius Crispus: Bellum Iugurthinum . Erl. And incl. by Erich Koestermann . Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1971. (Comment)
- C. Sallustius Crispus: Bellum Iugurthinum / The war with Jugurtha. Ed. And transl. by Karl Büchner . Reclam, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 978-3-15-000948-2 .
literature
- Klaus Bringmann : On the political excursion in Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum , RhM 117 (1974), pp. 95-103.
- Karl Büchner : The structure of Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1953.
- Christina V. Dix: Virtutes and vitia. Interpretations of the character drawings in Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum. Scientific publishing house Trier, Trier 2006. ISBN 978-3-88476-850-1
- Peter Fiedler: The two attack battles on Metellus and Marius in the Bellum Iugurthinum des Sallust , WS 78 (1965), pp. 108–127.
- Bardo Gauly : Art. Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-34 BC). De bello Iugurthino. In: Volker Reinhardt (Hrsg.): Main works of historiography (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 435). Kröner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-520-43501-2 , pp. 553-556.
- Dieter Timpe : Idea of rule and client state politics in Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum. In: Hermes 90 (1962), pp. 334-375.
- Karl Vretska : Studies on Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum , Vienna 1955.
Web links
Wikisource: Bellum Iugurthinum - Sources and full texts (Latin)
