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Catiline Conspiracy, The
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Catiline Conspiracy, The. Opera in 2 acts by
Hamilton to lib. by comp. based on Ben Jonson's
Catalina (1611). Comp. 1972–3. Prod. Stirling 1974.
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Cicero, Catiline, and Conspiracy: vying for control, Lucius Catiline conspired to become Rome's monarch, while Cicero worked to expose and thwart his plans and keep Rome's Republic alive.(History--Rome)
Magazine article from: The New American; 12/13/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...overthrow the republic. Master of Deceit Lucius Catiline was a dissolute patrician and senator gifted...energy, and tremendous personal magnetism. Catiline could, the historian Sallust (and Catiline's contemporary) tells us, "endure hunger...
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Catiline.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...his publisher, that his first play, Catiline (1850), "contains the seeds of a...the validity of Ibsen's estimate of Catiline, "for the theater of today," as Van...a translation of the 1875 version of Catiline in Early Plays by Henrik Ibsen; in 1970...
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Civic humanism and gender politics in Jonson's Catiline.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...loss of authority. Ben Jonson wrote Catiline (1611) at the beginning of a decade...play dramatizes Cicero's defeat of Catiline's conspiracy, one of the key moments...pieces. (5) If an army finally kills Catiline offstage, an orator effectively destroys...
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The Sulpician law on debt: implications for the political elite and broader ramifications.
Magazine article from: Acta Classica; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...vexabant. More and more each day his (Catiline's) headstrong mind was disturbed by...are obvious topoi here used to create Catiline's unmitigatingly negative character...insidious? Sallust's description of Catiline is certainly based on Cicero's description...
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BIG DEAL SENATUS POPULUSQUE PHILIPPINENSIS
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 10/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...62 B.C.). Known in English as Catiline, he sought election to consul (the...bribery." Try as he might, however, Catiline could not overcome opposition from senators...C.). According to one account, Catiline plotted with his underlings to assassinate...
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Former Latin students who hav ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/8/2004; ; 497 words
; ...pitted against a "louche" spendthrift, Catiline. They ran against each other for a consulship, which Catiline viewed as a ticket out of debt; but...were already talking up revolution, and Catiline decided to be their champion. Cicero...
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FICTION Harry Mount enjoys Robert Harris's story of the modern politics of ancient Rome
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/4/2009; ; 675 words
; ...the threat to his power, and to Rome, from Catiline, a Roman senator. The threat comes from more...too. Cicero the exceptional lawyer forces Catiline out of Rome in his famous Catiline Orations. He then seals Catiline's fate with...
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Threats to the Republic.(Roman Republic)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...patrician, Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline, in English). Cicero wrote four eloquent...the necessary emergency powers to foil Catiline's traitorous scheme. In what has come...questions to the senators, "For how long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience...
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Ancient & modern
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/13/2000; ; 494 words
; ...to death in the ensuing riots. Take Catiline who, frustrated at his continual rejection...historian Sallust reports a letter sent by Catiline to his friends as he was about to join...honour.' This is a telling admission. Catiline saw himself as beyond accountability...
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Jonson versus Bakhtin: Carnival and the Grotesque.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Sejanus (1605) and the Saturnalia in Catiline (1611). The Kalends followed upon...lengthy oration in Act IV condemning Catiline, exactly reversing the plebeians' temporary...Bakhtinian carnival The main source for Catiline, Sallust, does not mention the Saturnalia...
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Catiline
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Catiline Catiline (ca. 108-62 B.C.), or Lucius Sergius Catilina, was a Roman...blocked his attempt to overthrow the government in 63 B.C. Although Catiline traced his patrician lineage to Sergestus, a companion of Aeneas...
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Catiline Conspiracy, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Catiline Conspiracy, The. Opera in 2 acts by Hamilton to lib. by comp. based on Ben Jonson's Catalina (1611). Comp. 1972–3. Prod. Stirling 1974.
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Cicero
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...party leader he successfully prosecuted Catiline . Later he was unable to prove that he...legal sanction to execute five members of Catiline's group, and on the charge of illegality...famous of these are the Orations against Catiline, on the occasion of the conspiracy...
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Publius Clodius Pulcher
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...collusion with the revolutionary noble Catiline in 64, although this was disputed...done this in the case of supporters of Catiline and was forced to go into exile. Clodius...Additional Sources Beesly, Edward Spencer, Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius, Tustin, Calif...
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...philospher, and orator. A leader of the Senate, he exposed Catiline's conspiracy (63 bc). He criticized Mark Antony in the...oratory. Among his greatest speeches were Orations Against Catiline and the Phillipics . His rhetorical and philosophical works...
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