‘Words Do Not Bestow Valor’: Populism in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum

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Brief Overview

This paper argues that a defining feature of populism is the deprecation of speech in favor of deeds, a phenomenon that the Roman historian Sallust documents in his accounts of the political conflict in the late Roman Republic.

Author

• Maxwell Lykins, University of Virginia-Main Campus