The Catilinarian Conspiracy of 63 BC was a crucial moment in the Late Roman Republic. It
marks a point in which Cicero’s personal and political relationships with Pompey the Great,
Caesar, and Crassus shifted. Cicero’s desperate struggle to suppress Catiline’s attempt to take the Republic illegally while Pompey was fighting in the East is an event which changed the ways in which these four men associated and set the stage for the eventual fall of the Roman Republic.