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Catiline (Paperback)
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Catiline (Paperback)
Series: Ancients in Action
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Like Guy Fawkes in early 17th-century Britain, L. Sergius Catilina
was a threat to the constitution imposed on Rome by Sulla in the
mid-1st century BC. His aim at first was to reach the consulship,
the summit of power at Rome, by conventional means, but he lacked
the money and support to win his way to the top, unlike two
contemporaries of greater means and talent: the orator Cicero and
the military man Pompey the Great. Defeated for the third time,
Catiline took to revolution with a substantial following: destitute
farmers, impoverished landowners, discontented Italians and debtors
of all kinds. But they could not stand up to the forces of law and
order and the rebellion was quashed. For the controversy that still
surrounds it, the personalities involved, the distinction of the
writers such as Cicero and Sallust, who are our main sources of
information for it, this episode remains one of the most
significant in late Republican history. This volume gives an
energetic and appealing overview of the events, their sources, and
the arguments of modern historians looking back at this
controversial period. Accessible for students, but useful also for
more experienced scholars, this is the perfect introduction not
only to a specific historical episode, but also to the problems of
tackling ancient sources as evidence.
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