Keelan’s Reviews > Catiline's War, The Jurgurthine War, Histories > Status Update

Sallust attributes gravity to his words—each paragraph is weighty. As such, The Jugurthine War is a concise text that demands careful study. What you earn by doing so, though, is more than knowledge of a necessary document recording events of the Late Republic, but a peculiarly minute examination of the human condition and psyche under extreme circumstances.