He was the adopted grandson and biological great, great nephew of the historian Sallust.

More's work, and that of contemporary historian Polydore Vergil, reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing style ; for example, the shadowy King Richard is an outstanding, archetypal tyrant drawn from the pages of Sallust, and should be read as a meditation on power and corruption as well as a history of the reign of Richard III.

* October 1 – Sallust, Roman historian ( d. 34 BC )

The Res gestae saxonicae are significant historical accounts of the times of Otto the Great and Henry the Fowler, modelled on the works of the Roman historian Sallust and the deuterocanonical Books of the Maccabees.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust ( 86 BC – c. 35 BC ) was a Roman historian, politician, and novus homo from a well-known plebeian family.

Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have Catiline's War ( about the conspiracy in 63 BCE of L. Sergius Catilina ), The Jugurthine War ( about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE ), and the Histories ( of which only fragments survive ).

Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian Thucydides and amassed great ( and ill-gotten ) wealth from his governorship of Africa.

Due to this Sallust could have been raised in Rome The historian received very good education.

On the whole, antiquity looked favourably on Sallust as an historian.

Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian Sallust ( 86 BC ).

" That he had his own views on historiography should not be doubted: in his opinion, Sallust ought not to be read as an historian at all, but as an orator.

During the run-up to the Jugurthine War the historian Sallust wrote of the extensive bribery of Jugurtha in his attempts to persuade the Senate not to intervene on his brother's behalf.

The Company's motto is Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt, from the Roman historian Sallust meaning In Harmony Small Things Grow.

* C. Sallustius Crispus, the historian usually known in English as Sallust ( 45 BC, Africa Nova )

The Roman historian Sallust wrote a monograph, Bellum Jugurthinum, on the Jugurthine War emphasising this decline of Roman ethics and placed it, along with his work on the Conspiracy of Catiline, in the timeline of the degeneration of Rome that began with the Fall of Carthage and ended with that of the Republic.

Crispus was the adopted grandson and biological great-great nephew of the historian Sallust.

According to Anthony Everitt, Terentia later remarried two times, her second husband being the historian Sallust.

He was the adopted grandson and biological great, great nephew of the historian Sallust.

The historian Sallust states she was extremely fortunate in life, marriage, and children, yet had a profligate character.

In his selection of the Senate ( lectio senatus ) as censor, Appius removed a senator of tribunician rank named C. Sallustius Crispus, the later famous historian Sallust.

The Italian medieval and Renaissance political tradition today referred to as " civic humanism " is sometimes considered to derive directly from Roman republicans such as Sallust and Tacitus.

Sallust wrote an account of the conspiracy that epitomized Catiline as representative of all of the evils festering in the declining Roman republic.

Intervening between his studies of Tacitus and Sallust was his 1958 set of lectures, Colonial Elites, which compared the processes and results of colonisation by Romans in Spain, by Spaniards in Latin America, and by English settlers in New England ; on various grounds, Syme distinguished English colonisation of North America from its Roman and Spanish counterparts.

Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines and was a popularis, opposer of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar.

This subject gave Sallust the opportunity of showing off his rhetoric at the expense of the old Roman aristocracy, whose degeneracy he delighted to paint in the blackest colours.

Granius compiled a " novel " narrative epitome of Roman history, drawing mainly on Livy and Sallust, that ran to at least 36 books, " keen on anecdotes and curious details.

The traditional derivation of " Tullianum " is from the name of one of the Roman kings Tullus Hostilius or Servius Tullius ( the latter is found in Livy, Varro, and also Sallust ); there is an alternative theory that it is from the archaic Latin tullius " a jet of water ", in reference to the cistern.

Sallustius or Sallust () was a 4th-century writer, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate.

Lampert was superbly educated for his day and wrote in a fine, classicizing Latin peppered with references and allusions to Roman authors, particularly Livy, Sallust, and the playwright Terence.

* Titus Turpilius Silanus, according to Sallust in his history of the Jugurthine War, Titus Turpilius Silanus was the commander of the Roman garrison at Vaga, and the only Roman to survive when the native Numidians rose up against the garrison.

Many of them were excavated in the ancient Roman horti ( e. g. the Gardens of Sallust ) between the 1890s and 1930s, a fruitful period for Roman archaeology.

However, there is no strict evidence about this, and some scholars suppose that Sallust haven't been a quaestor — the practice of violating cursus honorum was common in the last years of the Republic ..

Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.

Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns, and from other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust.

Julius Caesar and Sallust were outstanding historical writers of Cicero's time.

Sallust adopted an abrupt, pointed style in his historical works.

Latin can be used with striking conciseness, as in the works of Sallust and Tacitus.

Pocock, in the so-called " Cambridge School " of interpretation have been able to show that some of the republican themes in Machiavelli's political works, particularly the Discourses on Livy, can be found in medieval Italian literature which was influenced by classical authors such as Sallust.

He was anxious to show that sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of Sallust and Tacitus could appreciate and enjoy.

Shortly after he dies of a fever at his villa in the Gardens of Sallust.

On a slope of the Quirinal were the extensive gardens of Sallust.

The healthy cool air of the Quirinal Hill attracted aristocrats and papal families that built villas where the gardens of Sallust had been in antiquity.

With his title of " royal typographer " Estienne made the Paris establishment famous by his numerous editions of grammatical works and other school-books ( among them many of Melanchthon's ), and of classical and Patristic authors, as Dio Cassius, Cicero, Sallust, Julius Caesar, Justin, Socrates Scholasticus, and Sozomen.

In his account, Sallust attributes countless crimes and atrocities to Catiline, but even he refuses to heap some of the most outrageous claims on him, particularly a ritual that involved the drinking of blood of a sacrificed child.

Later historians such as Florus and Dio Cassius, far removed from the original events, recorded the claims of Sallust and the aforementioned rumors as facts.

Up until the modern era Catiline was equated, as Sallust described, to everything depraved and contrary to both the laws of the gods and men.

Gregory's education was the standard Latin one of Late Antiquity, focusing on Vergil's Aeneid and Martianus Capella's Liber de Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, but also other key texts such as Orosius ' Chronicles, which his Historia is a continuation of, and Sallust, all of which works he refers to in his own.

Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author Sallust, which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian.

Image: Niobid Sallustiani Massimo Inv72274. jpg | Dying Niobid, found in the Gardens of Sallust ( Palazzo Massimo ).

But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus ; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius.