A Historical Commentary on Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum

by George M. Paul

The Bellum Jugurthinum is the second historical monograph (the other is the Catilina) written by C. Sallustius Crispus (probably 86-35 B.C.), a senator, Caesarian general and historian whose political and literary career spanned the violent years which saw the end of the Roman Republic. The Bellum Jugurthinum describes an earlier war fought in North Africa at the end of the 2nd century B.C. against Jugurtha, an ambitious native prince who tried to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0905205162
• ISBN13: 9780905205168
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications
• Length: 276 Pages