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This monograph deals primarily with the problem of the so-called
point of view or the narrative focus in Roman historiography, more
accurately in the works of the Roman historian Sallust, namely The Cat-
ilinarian Conspiracy (Lat. Bellum Catilinae) and The Jugurthine Disorder
(Lat. Bellum Iugurthinum). In the opening part of the thesis some ques-
tions concerning Sallust’s literary methods are addressed, such as his style
which is decidedly “Catonian” archaizing Latin and especially his choice of
monograph as a form of delivering his chosen historical matter – obvious-
ly influenced by Thucydides. One of the main questions, however, which
still puzzles many researchers and which are also addressed in the opening
chapters of this thesis is what were the author’s main sources for his polit-
ical and philosophical Weltanschauung, which was often mistaken for po-
litical disillusionment. Concluding with the view that Sallust dismissed
the well established concept of the old aristocratic virtue (Lat. virtus) and
forged a new, neutral concept of virtue attainable to all who deserve it this
thesis then proceeds to address the well known points of theory in mod-
ern narratology.
After having established the primary functions and their interrelations
in a text, such as the author, the reader, the implied author and implied
reader, the narrator, the narratee etc., the thesis then focuses on the very
much discussed problem of the point of view; distinguishing between dif-
ferent types of narrative focus and different focalizing situations, the chap-
ter on narrative focus primarily deals with the question of the point of view
and the narrative focus in historiography: it has been shown that in histori-
ography one encounters an omniscient narrator with certain restrictions of
This monograph deals primarily with the problem of the so-called
point of view or the narrative focus in Roman historiography, more
accurately in the works of the Roman historian Sallust, namely The Cat-
ilinarian Conspiracy (Lat. Bellum Catilinae) and The Jugurthine Disorder
(Lat. Bellum Iugurthinum). In the opening part of the thesis some ques-
tions concerning Sallust’s literary methods are addressed, such as his style
which is decidedly “Catonian” archaizing Latin and especially his choice of
monograph as a form of delivering his chosen historical matter – obvious-
ly influenced by Thucydides. One of the main questions, however, which
still puzzles many researchers and which are also addressed in the opening
chapters of this thesis is what were the author’s main sources for his polit-
ical and philosophical Weltanschauung, which was often mistaken for po-
litical disillusionment. Concluding with the view that Sallust dismissed
the well established concept of the old aristocratic virtue (Lat. virtus) and
forged a new, neutral concept of virtue attainable to all who deserve it this
thesis then proceeds to address the well known points of theory in mod-
ern narratology.
After having established the primary functions and their interrelations
in a text, such as the author, the reader, the implied author and implied
reader, the narrator, the narratee etc., the thesis then focuses on the very
much discussed problem of the point of view; distinguishing between dif-
ferent types of narrative focus and different focalizing situations, the chap-
ter on narrative focus primarily deals with the question of the point of view
and the narrative focus in historiography: it has been shown that in histori-
ography one encounters an omniscient narrator with certain restrictions of
