ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter ties together the various strands of argumentation and offers some suggestions about why Sallust carried on with history-writing despite his own doubts about its continued value in the face of an autocratic regime. It suggests that the Histories may have been aimed not only at a broad audience of citizens whom Sallust encouraged to see through the propaganda of the triumvirs, but also possibly the triumvirs themselves. Finally, this chapter acknowledges the modern influence of Sallust’s method of analogical historiography.
