My book will reconsider the failed attempt by a number of Roman citizens to gain power in Rome
in 63 B.C. commonly labeled The Conspiracy of Catiline. Two Roman authors M. Tullius Cicero
and C. Sallustius Crispus were eyewitnesses to the events occurring that year and both wrote
lengthy accounts about the discovery and suppression of the affair and its participants who
were planning to gain power in Rome through violent means. The participants planned murder and
arson inside of Rome and threatened the city with an army in northern Etruria. Our sources tend
to ascribe the leadership of these hostile activities to L. Sergius Catilina presented as a
debauched and indebted scion of a noble family. However our sources discuss many other Roman
citizens who participated with the affair
