"Dans les monts d'Algerie, sa race renaitra : Le vent a dit le nom d'un nouveau
Jugurtha ", c'est ainsi que Rimbaud (1854-1891), eleve de college a Charleville (Ardennes, Grand-Est), evoque dans ses vers, a travers la legende de
Jugurtha, l'emir Abdelkader, heros de la resistance algerienne contre l'occupation francaise, qui avait ete deja libere (1952) de sa detention au chateau d'Amboise par Napoleon III.
Sallust: The War Against
Jugurtha. Oxford: Liverpool University Press, 2009.
Strategus
jugurtha Burmeister, 1847: Se recolecto un individuos macho en la RB, con trampas de luz blanca en mayo.
Je vis ce malheur comme Hannibal et
Jugurtha ont vecu la defaite et la trahison, et comme Platon a assiste a la decadence de la splendide Athenes, et comme Ibn Rochd a vecu le debut de la decadence des Almohades, qui prefigurait la chute de Grenade.
(29) And for Mustapha, Nedjma might help to reconstruct the broken tribe, as "ce sera l'arbre de la nation s'enracinant dans la sepulture tribale, sous le nuage enfin creve d'un sang trop de fois ecume." (30) The "star" of her name recalls the Etoile nord-africaine, one of the early nationalist organisations in Algeria, and her protean character contains resonances of
Jugurtha, who, as the poet Jean Amrouche famously demonstrated, encapsulates the North African spirit as "le genie de l'alternance." (31) Critic Louis Tremaine has sifted through the various readings of the novel that stress this parallel between Nedjma and Algeria, with her four lovers being conceived either as versions of the desiring conqueror, or as the various parties fighting for independence.
However, Kempshall's very full coverage of Sallust's Catiline and
Jugurtha, in Rome and in North Africa, was well managed, as was his treatment of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria.
In my 2008 book, The Ambivalence of Imperial Discourse, I dedicate three chapters to the representation and interpretation of historical characters--namely Viriatus,
Jugurtha, and Scipio Aemilianus--and the historical events surrounding the final siege and destruction of the Celtiberian city in Cervantes's play.
As a military officer with a passion for military history, this book was attractive because it covered the Punic Wars, Hannibal,
Jugurtha, Kasserine Pass, and the Algerian war of independence in addition to recent peacekeeping operations.
After that, a walk was in order, so what better than a jaunt up a mist-shrouded mountain,
Jugurtha's Table, named after the king who used the forbidding plateau as a fortification against invading Romans.