Sallust (86-ca. 35 BC), or Gaius Sallustius Crispus, was a Roman statesman and historian. Rejecting the annalistic method of writing history, he concentrated with improved accuracy and narrative technique on critical stages in the decline of the Roman...

C. Sallustius Crispus, Rome's first great historian, entered public life in the crisis of Rome's external expansion and internal revolution; he retired from that public life to write history that survived, in part, the fall of the Empire and achieved a...

In the following essay, Levene argues that Sallust deliberately composed his Bellum Jugurthinum as a fragment in order to highlight the moral decline and tragedy of Rome and to show that the history he writes is incomplete.

In the following essay, Levene argues that in the Bellum Catilinae Sallust was working in the tradition of Cato the Censor as he calls for moral uprightness and condemns the lack of virtue in contemporary life.

In the following essay, Ahleid discusses the “Letter of Mithridates” from the Historiae as a work of deliberative oratory.