Présence de César dans La conjuration de Catilina de Salluste

This paper aims at proving that Caesar is much more present in Sallust’s Catilina than it would appear reading the few chapters where his name is cited. One shouldn’t be surprised at this since, at the very center of Roman political strife at the time Sallust was writing this book, Caesar and his fame were still well remembered by those who would still abide by his political views as well as by those who rejected them. We’ll examine as well Sallust’s distant judgment on Caesar through the analysis of some key notions within Caesar and Sallust’s writings such as libertas and dignitas.