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I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Dr.

Riana Evans, senior lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Latrobe University.

This is episode XcTV V. I. Sullist was a Roman politician and historian riding during the time of the fall of the Roman Republic.

The two main surviving examples of his work are the Catalan conspiracy and the

Jogerthine war and they give an informative and partisan view of important Roman

events.

Here's Rianna Evans.

Salist is a really important writer of the late Republic. He's a historian. He writes two works that we still have and a third one we've mostly lost and the two we have

concentrate on specific events so it's not that kind of sprawling history that covers

decades or hundreds of years he's talking about moments of crisis in ancient Rome.

And he is a writer who comes right at the moment that some would say Julius Caesar is destroying the republic and just before the

civil war that leads to Octavians rise so it's kind of a crucial point in Rome's

history and so he's living right in that period. He's not only living in it but he's also involved in it politically for a certain amount of time anyway.

Let's talk about his background then. Who was he and how did he come to be involved in Rome's inner circles of power?

Okay, well he's from the center of Italy, from a place called Ameterum, his full name's Gaius Salustius Crispus.

I kind of wish we called him Crispus rather than Salist.

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