Ahve, and welcome to Emperor of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Rianna Evans, an associate professor in

classics and ancient history from Latrobe University. This is episode

CCX II and part three of the Catalan conspiracy, a stolen election.

Catalan attempted to become consul of Rome more than once and it's a position he believes he deserves.

When he fails in his efforts and Cicero is elected, he attempts to force the issue, conspiring

with all those who have a grudge against the state. He is Rianna Evans.

In 64 B.C. E. probably around the middle of the year we have the election for

the consulship of 63 B.C. E. and Katteline runs.

He tried to run before, remember, and he was disallowed.

But he definitely runs for the Consulship of 63.

This is the year that, spoiler, Cicero is going to be one of the consoles.

So even though he's a rival of Cicero, they're actually going to be three candidates and

only two of them can be consul.

He might initially have been supported by Cicero because what we do know about

Cicero is that because he was a new man, Noose Omo, came from a family that hadn't had consuls

in it before.

He needed the support of traditional elites to get into power.

Because without going into too much detail,

the elections were stacked so that elite votes were worth more.

But because it's not just one, it's not just like the election to be president, you don't

have a joint president.

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