istory is probably the field where one can find most parallels
between modern and ancient concepts of life and world. Why
history? Because history is a continuous sequence of events,
where context provides images of different individuals that we
can imitate or, on the contrary, try to not imitate. For the
value of history is measured by the possibility for deducting
morals to be applied in every context. Thus, in the constant
change of contexts, some images remain the same and others
change their shapes in order to serve various purposes. As far
as translation theory is concerned, the reception of history is
determined to a great extent by the strategies chosen by
different translators, as well as their objectives. Two
Bulgarian translations of Sallust's Coniuratio Catilinae, edited
in Bulgaria in 1940 and in 1982, provide examples of two
different ways of reception of a particular part of ancient
history and ancient literary models. As a matter of fact, these
two texts are the only complete translations of C