Catiline (ca. 108-62 BC), or Lucius Sergius Catilina, was a Roman politician and revolutionary. Cicero blocked his attempt to overthrow the government in 63 B.C. Although Catiline traced his patrician lineage to Sergestus, a companion of Aeneas, no...

In 1874 Ibsen observed to Frederik Hegel, his publisher, that his first play, Catiline (1850), "contains the seeds of a good deal that has subsequently emerged in my writing." The following year he published a revised (and much improved) version of this play,...

I Most intellectual and cultural historians accept J. G. A. Pocock's claim that civic humanist discourse petered out in England after the middle of the sixteenth century, to return in a republican form only in the 1640s. (1) Markku Peltonen and David...