We like to think of terrorist plots as being in a condition of the modern world.

However, there were such plots around over 2,000 years ago.

During the Hectic period of the end of the Roman Republic, Rome was faced with a terrorist

plot of its own.

A group of disgruntled aristocrats

wanted to burn down the city and take control of the republic. Learn more about

the Catalan conspiracy on this episode of Everything everywhere daily. The Cataline conspiracy, also known as the Cataline conspiracy, is often overlooked because of the even bigger events which came before. in the and the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey. It isn't so much that the Catalan conspiracy wasn't important so much as it's overshadowed by bigger events that happened.

Sort of in the same way that the hyper-inflation of the Weimar Republic isn't quite given the same amount of attention as

World War I or World War II.

The first civil war between Marius and Sulla left major scars on Rome.

Many of Rome's elite were killed via Marius's massacres and Sulla's prescription lists,

which basically made it legal to murder anyone on the list and take some other stuff.

The war wrecked the Roman economy and dramatically hampered international trade.

As a result, many Romans incurred major debts.

These included both lower-class publians and the upper-class optimates.

One of the Romans who had incurred serious dead was one Lucius, Seagius, Cataline.

Kattoline was from an aristocratic family who could trace its origins back to the founding of the republic.

However, no one in his family, the

Sergei, had been a consul for 300 years. Having consuls in your family was a

really big deal in Rome, and the more consuls your family had, the more prestige

and honor your family had. On paper, Katteline was a decent candidate for

Consul. He had the right kind of family. He had served as a governor in Africa,

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