num_pages: 290
description: The Roman historian C. Sallustius Crispus, better known as Sallust, decided to write about the war against the Numidian king Jugurtha, 'because it was a long and cruel struggle in which fortune swung from side to side; and secondly, because it was then for the first time that a stand was taken against the arrogance of the nobles'.
language: English
title: The Jugurthine War
titlecomplete: The Jugurthine War
genres: Classics, History, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 171
publisher: Liverpool University Press