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Oct 01, 0086 Amiternum, Abruzzo, Italy Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 85)
Roman historian, politician
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About Sallust
- Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (; 86 – c.
- 35 BC), was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family.
- Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines and was a popularis, an opponent of the old Roman aristocracy, throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar.
- Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Catiline's War (about the conspiracy in 63 BC of L.
- Sergius Catilina), The Jugurthine War (about Rome's war against the Numidian King Jugurtha from 111 to 105 BC), and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) are still extant.
- Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian Thucydides and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Africa.
