Catiline

by Barbara Levick and Dina Nayeri

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472534891
• ISBN13: 9781472534897
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"