Contextualização do jogo antitético no De Coniuratione Catilinae

Abstract

In this essay, we present an analysis on how Sallust’s antithetic thought is structured, on the sintagmatic level, in the monograph De Coniuratione Catilinae. We aim at showing that the descriptive portraits, letters, speeches and digressions that the author interpolates along the narrative and which bear the distinctive mark of sallustian texts (though such insertions were not original because they were a common procedure, since Herodotus, in classical historioghaphy) constitute a privileged space for the contextualization of the dualistic theoretical model. This model that spells out several opposition pairs is presented, in a paradigmatic way, in the prologue of the monograph.