Chronology
Every drafted work, year by year, alongside the events of Sallust's life. Runs of consecutive letters are folded into groups so you can skim past them or expand to read.
42 BC
Age ~44. A turbulent political career, salvaged by Caesar and then ended by Caesar's assassination (44), has driven Sallust out of public life. He turns to history; the Catiline's Conspiracy anatomizes the Republic's moral decay through the failed coup of 63 BC.
hist The Conspiracy of Catiline 42 BC41 BC
Age ~45. Continuing the project of his retirement, Sallust narrates Rome's war against the Numidian king Jugurtha — another case study in the corruption and incompetence of the nobility.
hist The Jugurthine War 41 BC39 BC
Age ~47, near his death. The Histories, covering the disordered decade of the 70s BC, is Sallust's last and most ambitious work; it survives only in fragments and a handful of set-piece speeches.
hist The Histories 39 BC