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Bellum Catilinae

A. J. Woodman (University of Virginia)

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Cambridge University Press
14 May 2026

Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Sallust is the first Roman historian whose work has survived, and his Bellum Catilinae is an excellent text for students. It provides a riveting narrative of a significant event in an important period of Roman history, the Catilinarian Conspiracy of 63 BC. His literary models were Thucydides and the Elder Cato; nevertheless, his Latin is significantly more straightforward than that of Livy or Tacitus. His work was immensely influential in antiquity, in terms not only of style and expression (Tacitus took him as his principal literary model) but also of political thought (especially for notions of national decline). His moralising endeared him to Christian authors such as Augustine and Jerome; interest in his work even increased during the Middle Ages; and he was the most popular Latin historian in the Renaissance. This edition helps students translate the Latin and appreciate the work and its literary and historical context.

Edited by: A. J. Woodman (University of Virginia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781009371513
ISBN 10: 1009371517
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 14 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

A. J. Woodman is Emeritus Professor of Latin at Durham University, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Virginia and a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He has published almost thirty books on a wide range of texts and topics in Latin literature, and has contributed numerous volumes within the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics including Tacitus: Agricola (with C. S. Kraus, Cambridge, 2014) and Horace: Odes III (Cambridge, 2022). His Penguin translation of Sallust (2007) was 'Outstanding Academic Title', Choice 2008, and Finalist in the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) National Translation Award, Fall 2009.