 He explains that the case of Catiline had special interest for him, because ""there are given few examples of historical persons, whose memory has been more entirely in the possession of their conquerors, than Catiline"".Thus, Catiline can be read as one of Ibsen's troubled (and troubling) heroes, alongside Brand and Gregers Werle.The play appeared in Christiania the following spring under Ibsen's early pseudonym, "Brynjolf Bjarme".