Catiline: Corrupt Traitor or Ambitious Social Reformer?

Cicerone denuncia Catalina (Cesare Maccari, 1888)

Catiline's Legacy: What Do You Think?

Catiline has been viewed through Cicero's eyes in the history books of our time.  As such, he has been labeled a corrupt traitor and ambitious revolutionary full of evil, sparking a revolution simply for personal gain.  Recently, however, some have argued the opposite: that he was a champion of the poor and the poverty-stricken, both in Rome and the surrounding Italian countryside, urging revolution for social reform.  Where do you stand on this argument?  Was Catiline a corrupt traitor, or an ambitious social reformer?

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Catiline Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catiline

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