Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome’s three most important Latin historians – Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus – in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as other classical writers and later political thinkers, this book develops interpretations of the three historians’ writings centering on their treatments of liberty, rhetoric, and social and political conflict. Sallust is interpreted as ...