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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.


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  • At least two major dramatists have written tragedies about Catilina: Ben Jonson, the English Jacobean playwright, wrote Catiline His Conspiracy in 1611; Catiline was the first play by the Norwegian 'father of modern drama' Henrik Ibsen, written in 1850.
  • Antonio Salieri wrote an opera tragicomica in two acts on the subject of the Cataline Conspiracy entitled Catilina to a libretto by Giambattista Casti in 1792, the work was left unperformed until 1994 due to its political implications during the French Revolution. Here serious drama and politics were blended with high and low comedy; the plot centered on a love affair between Cataline and a daughter of Cicero as well as the historic political situation.
  • Steven Saylor has written the novel Catilina's Riddle, where the plot evolves around the intrigue between Catilina and Cicero in 63 BC.
  • Catilina's conspiracy and Cicero's actions as Consul figure prominently in the novel Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough as a part of her Masters of Rome series.
  • SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy, by John Maddox Roberts discusses Catiline's conspiracy.
  • Robert Harris' book Imperium, based on Cicero's letters, covers the developing career of Cicero with many references to his increasing interactions with Catiline. The sequel, Lustrum, deals with the five years surrounding the Cataline Conspiracy.
  • The Roman Traitor or the Days of Cicero, Cato and Cataline: A True Tale of the Republic by Henry William Herbert originally published in 1853 in two volumes.
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