title: Mithridates’ Letter in Sallust’s Historiae: Roman and Pontic Propaganda
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metadata.value: Korolenkov, Anton V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:26:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:26:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Korolenkov A. V. Mithridates’ Letter in Sallust’s Historiae: Roman and Pontic Propaganda. Philologia Classica 2023, 18 (2), 216–229. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.206
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48074
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: According to the author of the article, Mithridates VI Eupator’s letter to the Parthian monarch
  Arsaces in Sallust’s Historiae does not reproduce the genuine document from the personal
  archives of the Pontic king as some researchers believe. The opinion that Sallust criticized
  Roman politics under Mithridates’mask is rejected; many scholars consider this letter to be
  a condemnation of deep moral decline of the Roman society. On the contrary, the Roman
  writer attributes to the Pontic king the weak and vulnerable arguments based on the false facts
  (at least from the Roman point of view) to discredit his (and not only his) criticism of Roman
  foreign policy. He calls the Romans “strangers without a homeland, without parents”, but it
  is naturally that Romans themselves did not think in this way. The author objects to E. Adler,
  who believes that most of Sallust’s readers did not know history well enough to mark the distortions
  of facts in Mithridates’ letter. There is every reason to believe that Sallust was counting
  on an educated public that would be able to appreciate these distortions and their meaning.
  The author thinks that Mithridates’ argumentation looks like a parody of the anti-Roman
  propaganda and it might have been perceived as such by Sallust’s readers.
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metadata.value: The paper was created within the project financed by the Russian Science Foundation:
  no. 22-28-01181 “The myth of oriental despotism in European literary tradition (from Antiquity to the Early
  Modern period)”, https://rscf.ru/en/project/22-28-01181/.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sallust
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Historiae
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mithridates VI Eupator
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anti-Roman propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Mithridates’ Letter in Sallust’s Historiae: Roman and Pontic Propaganda
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metadata.value: Article
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