Suspension and Denunciations: What Really did Happen at the Beginning of Caesar's Praetorship?

• Autores: Sabina Tariverdieva
• Localización: Latomus: revue d'études latines, ISSN 0023-8856, Vol. 80, Nº. 4, 2021, págs. 907-924
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At the beginning of 62 B.C.E., Caesar was temporarily suspended from his praetorian duties. At about the same time, he was twice named among Catiline’s accomplices. The relevant passages from the sources contain discrepancies. This article aims to reconcile the evidence, to reveal the interconnections between these two episodes and to reconstruct their chronology and political context. The results allow us to see the logic of permanent confrontation between Caesar and his conservative opponents in the 60s in a new light. This was not a minor episode, as Caesar could well have suffered the same fate that Lentulus Sura, the praetor of previous year, had a month earlier, but Caesar succeeded in escaping thanks to his popularity among the people.