Catiline - The First Catilinarian Conspiracy

Lucius Sergius Catilina (108 BC?–62 BC), known in English as Catiline, was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC who is best known for the Catiline (or Catilinarian) conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic, and in particular the power of the aristocratic Senate. One of the most enigmatic figures of Roman history, Catiline has been obscured by the invective of historians. The two chief sources for information on Catiline possessed numerous reasons to depict him in the worst possibl ...

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• Catiline - Life
• Catiline - Family background
• Catiline - Military Career
• Catiline - The First Catilinarian Conspiracy
• Catiline - The Intervening Years
• Catiline - The Second Catilinarian Conspiracy
• Catiline - Sources

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Catiline - Family background. Catiline was born in 108 BC (or possibly slightly earlier) to a family of declining social and financial fortunes. Although his family was of consular heritage, the last Sergius to be a consul was Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas Coxo in 380 BC. Furthermore, he would later be driven by attempting to restore the political heritage of his family along with its financial state. C ...

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Catiline, Catiline - Life, Catiline - Family background, Catiline - Military Career, Catiline - The First Catilinarian Conspiracy, Catiline - The Intervening Years, Catiline - The Second Catilinarian Conspiracy, Catiline - Sources

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