Catiline, Rebel of the Roman Republic

This is the only modern, scholarly biography of Catiline, based on an exhaustive study of the ancient sources and modern scholarship.Lucius Sergius Catilina ('Catiline'), was a Roman aristocrat from a poor but noble family. He was controversial figure both in his own times and in subsequent historical scholarship. Catiline was cast first as the Roman equivalent of Richard III and later as a left-wing revolutionary, depending on the times and historians’ leanings. Although Catiline’s calls for de