نظرة سالوستيوس للفساد السياسي في الجمهورية الرومانية من خلال كتابه حرب يوغرطة

الملخص EN

In this article we discuss the phenomenon of political corruption of the historian "Salustius" (86 BC-35 BC), contemporary until the end of this period.

we used his book, the Jugurtha war, as our main source, because after analyzing, deducing and extrapolating his information, it became clear to us that the historian wrote with political eyes.

unhistorical, as he considered that the political and moral decline that the Roman Republic witnessed was the result of political accumulation and internal conflicts in Rome, along with the role played by the nobles in making matters worse through their irresponsible behavior and behavior towards society and the republic, where this historian sheds light on the most important manifestations this corruption, which we summarized in the problem of bribery and the role it played in the Roman war with the Numidian king Jugurtha, as well as the partisan and military conflicts between the pimps that led to the collapse of the republic, this research aims to shed light on the political corruption that spread in Rome and Salustius' view of it.