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Catiline: A Historical Tragedy of Ancient Rome
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617202476
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Feb 8 2011
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Catiline is Voltaire's dramatic treatment of conspiracy, ambition, republican crisis, and political danger in ancient Rome. Drawing on the figure of Lucius Sergius Catilina and the famous Catilinarian conspiracy, Voltaire turns Roman history into a stage conflict about power, corruption, civic duty, rhetoric, and the fragile line between public liberty and private ambition. The result is a historical tragedy shaped by the Enlightenment interest in tyranny, virtue, reason, and the moral responsibilities of public life.
Presented here in William F. Fleming's English translation, Catiline belongs to Voltaire's long career as dramatist as well as philosopher, satirist, historian, and critic of political and religious abuse. The play gives modern readers another view of the author best known for Candide: not only the sharp wit of philosophical fiction, but the serious theatrical writer who returned repeatedly to history, classical example, and political conflict as ways of examining his own age.
This Wilder Publications edition is well suited to readers of classic drama, French literature in translation, Enlightenment literature, Roman historical subjects, political tragedy, and works concerned with conspiracy, republicanism, and civic collapse. Catiline remains valuable as both a stage work and a political-literary document: Voltaire using ancient Rome to think about power, legitimacy, ambition, and the dangers that arise when public trust breaks down.
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