The Story of Lucius Sergius Catalina

Lucius Sergius Catalina, known to history as Cataline, attempted in 63 B.C. to kill the man behind the curtain. His half-baked scheme never got off the ground, but his story touches on nearly every major player in the subsequent years of civil war in Rome. The only rule was power by any means necessary, because once in power the rules could be changed and those who disagreed could be eliminated. While Cataline carried with him all the arrogance of a well-pet agreed aristocrat, while simultaneously bearing the insecurity of knowing his family had been trading on a name that no one in recent memory had done much to earn. This would turn out to be