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Sallust

86 BC - 34 BC

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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (, SAL-əst; c. 86–35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sallust is the 268th most popular writer (down from 259th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Italy (down from 343rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Writer.

Sallust is most famous for his work, The Jugurthine War, which is a history of the war between Rome and King Jugurtha of Numidia.

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Among writers, Sallust ranks 268 out of 7,302. Before him are Dale Carnegie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jordanes, Bartolomé de las Casas, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Anna Akhmatova. After him are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Snorri Sturluson, Jami, Arthur C. Clarke, Quintilian, and Elfriede Jelinek.

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Among people born in 86 BC, Sallust ranks 1. After him are Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, and Publius Licinius Crassus. Among people deceased in 34 BC, Sallust ranks 1. After him is Lucius Scribonius Libo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sallust ranks 388 out of 5,161. Before him are Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378), Charles Borromeo (1538), Pope Benedict II (635), Philip Neri (1515), Catiline (-109), and Maxentius (278). After him are Man in the Iron Mask (1640), Pope John I (470), Claudio Abbado (1933), Pope John IX (850), Charles IV of Spain (1748), and Pope Mark (290).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Sallust ranks 22. Before him are Torquato Tasso (1544), Pliny the Younger (61), Juvenal (50), Grazia Deledda (1871), Dario Fo (1926), and Primo Levi (1919). After him are Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Alberto Moravia (1907), Christine de Pizan (1365), and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896).

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