In this paper, I first examine the most influential views of modern scholars on Clodius’s legislation as tribune of people in 58 BCE. Then I offer a new reading of this legislation, stressing the social and political context in which it took place. Reading against the grain of Cicero’s portrait of Clodius in "In Pisonem," I bring to the fore several clues or openings that enable us to have a clearer view of Clodius’s role and activities in the late republic.
Merli, O. G., Clodius in 58: A Reading of Cicero's "In Pisonem", <<ZETESIS>>, 2020; 2020 (XL, 1): 71-79 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/229654]
Clodius in 58: A Reading of Cicero's "In Pisonem"
Merli, Olivia Giuseppina
2020
Abstract
In this paper, I first examine the most influential views of modern scholars on Clodius’s legislation as tribune of people in 58 BCE. Then I offer a new reading of this legislation, stressing the social and political context in which it took place. Reading against the grain of Cicero’s portrait of Clodius in "In Pisonem," I bring to the fore several clues or openings that enable us to have a clearer view of Clodius’s role and activities in the late republic.
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