The Catilinarian Conspiracy would make a great setting for a drama, IMHO.
Reminds me of that time Pompey tried to celebrate a triumph in a chariot pulled by elephants... Turned out they couldn't fit through the city gates, so he had to transfer to a regular chariot and finish the procession in that.
(The man owned seven brothels, and a fucking elephant, and in the morning he rode his elephant through Rome to collect the night's earnings while on his way to the Vatican. NOT what I'd call a very pious man!)
Reminds me of that time Pompey tried to celebrate a triumph in a chariot pulled by elephants... Turned out they couldn't fit through the city gates, so he had to transfer to a regular chariot and finish the procession in that.