How to Stop a Conspiracy (eBook)

An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic

Sallust (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
240 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22958-4 (ISBN)

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An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the city and murder its leading politicians. The attempted coup culminated with the unmasking of the conspirators in the Senate, a stormy debate that led to their execution, and the defeat of Catiline and his legions in battle. In How to Stop a Conspiracy, Josiah Osgood presents a brisk, modern new translation of the definitive account of these events, Sallust's The War with Catiline-a brief, powerful book that has influenced how generations of readers, including America's founders, have thought about coups and political conspiracies.In a taut, jaw-dropping narrative, Sallust pleasurably combines juicy details about Catiline and his louche associates with highly quotable moral judgments and a wrenching description of the widespread social misery they exploited. Along the way, we get unforgettable portraits of the bitter and haunted Catiline, who was sympathetic to the plight of Romans yet willing to destroy Rome; his archenemy Cicero, who thwarts the conspiracy; and Julius Caesar, who defends the conspirators and is accused of being one of them.Complete with an introduction that discusses how The War with Catiline has shaped and continues to shape our understanding of how republics live and die, and featuring the original Latin on facing pages, this volume makes Sallust's gripping history more accessible than ever before.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Übersetzer: Josiah Osgood
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 63 BC • Aaron Burr • abolitionism • adultery • Aedile • Aliena (gens) • Allegation • Amiternum • Antonius • Appian Way • assassination • attempt • Ausonius • Barbara Levick • behalf • bribery • Cambridge University Press • Capital punishment • Cassius Dio • Cassius Severus • catiline • Cato the Elder • Cato the Younger • Cethegus • Cicero • Cimbri • Clodius • Complicity • Confiscation • Conspiracy Theory • Criminal charge • cruelty • curtailment • debt relief • declamation • Decree • Delian League • demagogue • Democracy • despotism • Dio Chrysostom • Domitian • Donald Trump • edict • Edition (book) • evocation • Explanation • exploration • false accusation • Farce • Fiction • First Catilinarian conspiracy • Foray • foreign policy • Fraud • freedom of speech • Gaius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony) • Gluttony • Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey the Great) • Gordian III • Gratus • Greek World • harpercollins • Harvard University Press • head of state • Hellenistic period • hostility • humiliation • iniuria • Invidia • I Wish (manhwa) • J. (newspaper) • John Quincy Adams • John Wilkes Booth • joseph ellis • Jugurthine War • Latin Literature • Legislation • Lentulus • licinius • Literature • loeb classical library • Lucius Caesar • Lustrum (novel) • Macedonian Wars • March on Rome • Morality • Murder • narrative • Nativism (politics) • Nobility • novelist • Optimates • Oxford University Press • Parody • Patrician (ancient Rome) • pederasty • Peloponnesian War • perjury • plea • political class • Political officer (British Empire) • Political Philosophy • Politician • Politics • Polyaenus • Pompey • praetor • Pretext • proconsul • Proscription • Prose • Psychology • Pungency • punic wars • punishment • Pyre • quaestor • Quintilian • Quintus Metellus Celer • rhetoric • Rhetoric (Aristotle) • Richard Hofstadter • Robbery • Roman consul • Roman government • roman republic • secret ballot • Sedition • Self-Interest • Septimius Severus • Sibylline Books • skepticism • slave power • Slavery • Smuggling • social issue • State of affairs (philosophy) • State of affairs (sociology) • Steven Saylor • St. Martin's Press • Suetonius • Sulla • Summary execution • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • Sympathy • The Conspiracy of Catiline • The Fortune of War • The Ides of March (novel) • The Machiavellian Moment • Third Macedonian War • Third Punic War • Thomas E. Ricks (journalist) • Thucydides • Treachery (law) • Tribune • Tribune of the Plebs • Trickster • Tyrannicide • Tyrant • unrest • Valentinian (play) • Wealth • WikiLeaks • wrongdoing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22958-9 / 0691229589
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22958-4 / 9780691229584