
Episode XCVII - Sallust
Emperors of Rome
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Sallust's the Catalina Conspiracy
In all the works, he seems to talk about moral decline being the cause. He's got the same kind of a gender where it is about greed. So there are commanders who are easily bribed and tat a problem - jugertha can bribe them at times. You seeit in other roman authors too, but perhaps particularly strikingly, in sallust, he's really interested in character and character flaws. These as other works of sallast were hogh regarded in terms of their style and rit ing. They get used basically as school texts, yos how to write something rhetorically powerful.
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