#catilinaria

[catilinas]

the catilinarian orations weren’t unreliable narration or just lying they were a speech act via which all of that actually happened

[robininthewinter]

Non so Catilina, vuoi anche cappuccino e brioche??? -cit. Cicerone in senato mentre recita la Prima Catilinaria

[catilinas]

the so-called catilinarian so-called conspiracy. the ciceronian conspiracy if you will

[catilinas]

also catilina’s riddle (steven saylor novel) is sooo good and correct in taking the phrase catilina’s riddle from plutarch and turning it into a) a genuinely good novel about where power is situated in rome, b) that also identifies ‘catilina’s riddle’ as the unsolvable problem of reconstructing the historical catilina from sources written by his enemy, and partially responds to this by incorporating bits of pro-catilina classical reception, and c) does this via a fun murder mystery involving an unidentified headless corpse

[catilinas]

sallust, bellum catilinae 34.2 trans. rolfe

wild to me that ‘i did nothing wrong but am going into exile anyway so that we don’t accidentally have a civil war about it’ is cicero’s exact line in his own post-exile speeches

[catilinas]

anniversary of the executions of the catilinarian conspirators today :(

[catilinas]

conspiracy date at the house of marcus laeca. candlelit dinner (perhaps including bowls of human blood)

stargazing on the mulvian bridge (and definitely not being led into an ambush by the allobroges)

what if we kissed on the battlefield of pistoria (and we were both conspirators)

[catilinas]

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