Sallust and Virgil

Sallust, called the brightest flower among Roman historians, and Virgil, whose verses caused the Roman people to rise in homage, were contemporaries and members of the circle of Asinius Pollio. Yet (and even though Virgil's ancient commentators and scholiasts refer to Sallust dozens of times) the relationship between the two has hardly received any attention. We will study the works of both authors in their respective Greek and Roman traditions and explore their (possible) linguistic and ideological parallels.