
Episode XCVII - Sallust
Emperors of Rome
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Sallast's Romantic Novels - A Novelistic Novel
We would really love to have mariu's kind of second in command is sola, who he will end o having a war against. And other romans involved in it, scaurus and rufus, they all wrote memoirs. We don't have those memoirs any more to the real shame. He also tells us at chapter 17 that he has north african sources, punic sources, which he gets translated. Which is really interesting, cause this is a case where somebody's actually using sources in another language, and from the side of the enemy. But i think sallust in some way suffers from the fact that he does know how to write a really good narrative
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