Catiline (Ancients in Action) - download pdf or read online

By Barbara Levick

ISBN-10: 1472534891

ISBN-13: 9781472534897

Like man Fawkes in early 17th-century Britain, L. Sergius Catilina was once a danger to the structure imposed on Rome by way of Sulla within the mid-1st century BC. His target at the beginning was once to arrive the consulship, the summit of energy at Rome, via traditional capacity, yet he lacked the money and aid to win his method to the head, in contrast to contemporaries of larger capability and skill: the orator Cicero and the army guy Pompey the Great.

Defeated for the 3rd time, Catiline took to revolution with a considerable following: destitute farmers, impoverished landowners, discontented Italians and borrowers of all types. yet they can now not withstand the forces of legislation and order and the uprising used to be quashed. For the talk that also surrounds it, the personalities concerned, the excellence of the writers corresponding to Cicero and Sallust, who're our major assets of knowledge for it, this episode is still the most major in past due Republican history.

This quantity supplies an lively and attractive evaluation of the occasions, their assets, and the arguments of contemporary historians in retrospect at this arguable interval. obtainable for college students, yet precious additionally for more matured students, this is often the right creation not just to a selected historic episode, but in addition to the issues of tackling historic assets as evidence.

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