Idealization and Irony in Sallust's Jugurtha
The Narrator's Depiction of Rome Before 146 B.C
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9397758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Miller (0000-0002-1128-5852), Jacob A Miller (0000-0001-6599-7321, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 242-252 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838814000688 |
| OpenAlex | W2165214668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
An examination of the idealized image of Rome before 146 b.c. constructed in the Jugurtha ( Jug .) reveals that despite the narrator's own stated opinions, his depiction of it is perverse and unhistorical. The narrator's value judgements are unappealing, his archaizing affected, his history plainly wrong: these are serious interpretative problems. Is this an attempt, as in the dialogues of Cicero, to re-educate the moral intuitions of his day by means of a fictitious past? Perhaps; but narratological analysis of the relevant sections suggests another solution, an extrapolation to the narratorial persona of the technique of ironic subversion used in the speeches. The key to understanding the depiction of Rome before 146 lies in the identification of political and historical discourse and the consequent extension to the latter of the factionalization characteristic of the former. The problematic aspects of the depiction of Rome before 146 empower the reader to articulate a critique of faction; the text needs to be surmounted to be understood
Archetype · Art · Cicero · Depiction · Humanities · Irony · Literature · Persona · Politics · Subversion · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |