Author Description

"This book investigates the subversive project conceived in Rome between 66 and 63 B.C. It analyses the political and social conditions after Sulla's reforms, showing how the Roman system was fragile and rigid even after the consulship of Pompeius and Crassus in 70 B.C. It studies the so-called 'first conspiracy' - planned by the pars popularis to restore the power lost by its two consuls because of an electoral fraud - and links it with the strategy and the political agenda of the Catilinae coniuratio. By analyzing the organisation chart of Catilinarian conspirators the book shows the different plans of the coniuratio, and proves that its final execution was very far from the Catiline's original plan."--Page 4 of cover