• Editors' Foreword


• Preface


• Figures


• Preliminary Note


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Patrician and the New Man


• Chapter 2: What are the Catilinarians?


• Chapter 3: Denouncing the Living / Dead Catiline: The First Catilinarian


• Chapter 4: Persuading the People: The Second and Third Catilinarians


• Chapter 5: Pro Cicerone: The Fourth Catilinarian


• Chapter 6: Catiline in the Underworld and Afterwards


• APPENDIX 1: A Catilinarian Chronology, 108-57 BC


• APPENDIX 2: Catiline's Surviving Words


• APPENDIX 3: Two Bowls Inscribed with the Names of Catiline and Cato


• Maps


• Bibliography


• Index

D. H. Berry is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published an edition of Cicero's Pro P. Sulla Oratio (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 1996) and two volumes in Oxford World's Classics, Cicero: Defence Speeches (2000) and Cicero: Political Speeches (2006).

In this, the first book-length discussion of Cicero's Catilinarians, D. H. Berry considers how the speeches should be interpreted as literature. Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time?