By Josiah Osgood
ISBN: 978-0691212364
Princeton University Press (2022) - £12.99
The Catiline Conspiracy of 63 BC was, for Rome, another scary road bump that could’ve turned out quite badly but didn’t – miraculously. For Cicero, who became consul that same year, it was the biggest moment of his life, and according to him, he put the ‘miracle’ in miraculous. In truth, the real miracle of shutting down Catiline’s conspiracy was the woman who betrayed the confidence of her
