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  Publius Clodius Pulcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clodius, dressed as a woman (men were not admitted to the mysteries), entered the house of Julius Caesar (at the time pontifex maximus), where the mysteries were being celebrated.
Clodius subsequently attacked the workmen who were rebuilding Cicero's house at public cost, assaulted Cicero himself in the street, and set fire to the house of Cicero's brother Quintus Tullius Cicero.
Clodius is a particular enemy of Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger in the SPQR series of mysteries by John Maddox Roberts.
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 Publius Clodius Pulcher
Clodius succeded in being adopted into the plebeian branch of his family in 59 and was in 58 elected tribune, an office for which patricians were ineligible.
Clodius stood for election for the praetorship in 52.
Clodius, dressed as a woman (men were not admitted to the mysteries), entered the house of Caesar, where the mysteries were being celebrated, in order to carry on an intrigue with Caesar's wife.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pu/Publius_Clodius.html   (765 words)

  
 Clodius - LoveToKnow 1911
The affair of the mysteries of the Bona Dea, however, caused a breach between Clodius and Cicero in December 62.
Clodius subsequently attacked the workmen who were rebuilding Cicero's house at the public cost, assaulted Cicero himself in the street, and set fire to the house of Q. Cicero.
In 53, when Milo was a candidate for the consulship, and Clodius for the praetorship, the rivals collected armed bands and fights took place in the streets of Rome, and on the 10th of January 52 Clodius was slain near Bovillae.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Clodius   (691 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 773 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Clodius and the tribune Ninnius went through the farce of dedicating to the gods, the one the property of Gabinius, the other that of Clodius.
Clodius stationed a body of men under his freedman Damis to watch him, and the praetor Flavins was repulsed in an attempt to drive them off.
Clodius was at this time a candidate for the aedileship, that, if successful, he might be screened from a prosecution ; and threatened the city with fire and sword if an assembly were not held for the election.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0782.html   (1109 words)

  
 Clodius Albinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Decimus Clodius Albinus was born on 25 November 147.
Clodius Albinus now could become consul, maybe in 185 or 186, after which he seems to have been governor of Germania Inferior, a province with two legions.
In January 197, the Clodius Albinus clashed with Severus in a battle in the Saône valley.
www.livius.org /cg-cm/clodius/albinus.html   (1190 words)

  
 Publius Clodius Pulcher - Definition, explanation
Clodius was the son of Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica.
Clodius, dressed as a woman (men were not admitted to the mysteries), entered the house of Caesar (then pontifex maximus), where the mysteries were being celebrated.
After the departure of Caesar for Gaul, Clodius practically became master of Rome with the aid of a personal gang, one of several who were active in the city at the time.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pu/publius_clodius_pulcher.php   (827 words)

  
 Clodius Albinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Autumn 196, Albinus proclaimed himself emperor (Imperator Caesar Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Augustus), crossed from Britain to Gaul, bringing a large part of the British garrison with him.
He defeated Severus' legate, Virius Lupus, and was able to lay claim to the military resources of Gaul.
Another Clodius Albinus was procurator in the Roman province of Iudaea in 62, immediately after the death of James the Just.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clodius_Albinus   (384 words)

  
 Clodius - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In 58 BC, Clodius was tribune of the people, put into office by the First Triumvirate (Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey) probably under the mistaken impression that he would be a tool.
Clodius spent much of his money in organizing gangs of bullies to intimidate the city.
The tribune Milo (initially supported by Pompey) organized a conservative gang, and Rome was plagued with bloody rioting until Clodius was killed by Milo's gang.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-clodius.html   (382 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.03.18
Clodius would surely have found a more tempting model in Caesar, who had maintained his popularis stance in his consulship and used it as a springboard to a great command and rivalry with Pompey.
Clodius' death provoked the crisis which led to Pompey's sole consulship and thence to the tension between Pompey and Caesar of which the civil war was the eventual result.
Clodius' innocence was upheld by J. Balsdon, "Fabula Clodiana," Historia 15 (1966), 65-73, implausibly arguing that his alibi that he had spent the night ninety miles away at Interamna was not incompatible with Cicero's claim that Clodius had called upon him at Rome earlier in the day.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-03-18.html   (2449 words)

  
 Biographies: Clodius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Clodius maintained he had been at Interamna, 90 miles (145 km) from Rome, on the day in question, but Cicero, who abused the defendant intemperately, presented evidence to the contrary.
Clodius was acquitted, perhaps because the jury had been bribed, but immediately began to devise ways to revenge himself on Cicero.
Clodius then became the political rival in Rome of the Optimate tribune Titus Annius Milo, who helped to have Cicero recalled from exile in 57.
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 Clodius and Scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Clodius next went to Syria where he nearly was killed during a mutiny he was accused of instigating.
Clodius' alibi for the night of the Bona Dea incident, was exploded by Cicero, who at the time was feuding with Clodius' sister.
Clodius, who was questor during the trial, then went to Sicily to serve as his quaestorship.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /westcivi/new_page_73.htm   (489 words)

  
 WLGR
Clodius was in love with Caesar's wife Pompeia, and she was not unwilling.
(10.5) Clodius was indicted for sacrilege by one of the tribunes, and the most influential senators joined forces against him and testified about other dreadful outrages he had committed and his incest with his sister, who was married to Lucullus.
Clodius was acquitted because most of the jurors handed in their opinions in illegible writing, so that they would not endanger themselves with the common people by voting against him, or disgrace themselves with the nobility by letting him off.
www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-religion412.shtml   (983 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Clodius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Clodius is the Roman nomen Claudius altered to a spelling that would have sounded plebeian to Roman ears.
The original alteration was a political maneuver by P. Clodius Pulcher.
Chlodion the Longhair, a chieftain of the Salian Franks[?], is sometime called "Clodius I".
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/cl/Clodius   (98 words)

  
 DL - latinlit - carmina -People of catullus
Publius Clodius is one of the most colorful characters from the annals of the history of Rome.
It is said that he and his sister Clodia changed their names from Claudius in order to disassociate themselves from that family and its respectable roots.
Clodius was at that time a candidate for the praetorship.
www.dl.ket.org /latinlit/carmina/catullus/people/clodius.htm   (421 words)

  
 Publius Clodius Pulcher
Born into a wealthy and patrician family chose, like his sister Clodia, to spell his ancient name in the lower-class spelling with an -o-.
Clodius, dressed as a woman (men were not admitted to the mysteries), entered the house of Caesar (then pontifex maximus), where the mysteries were being celebrated, in order to carry on an intrigue with Pompeia Sulla, Caesar's wife.
In 53, when Milo was a candidate for the consulship, and Clodius for the praetorship, the rivals collected armed bands and fights took place in the streets of Rome, and on January 18 52 Clodius was slain near Bovillae.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pu/publius_clodius_pulcher.html   (785 words)

  
 Clodius
Clodius was put on trial for his crime, and Cicero was the head prosecutor.
Clodius claimed to have been elsewhere, but Cicero destroyed his alibi.
Still, Clodius managed to bribe his way to an acquittal in the case.
dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Fall_of_Republic/names/clodius.htm   (170 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Clodius
She was wife, in turn, of Publius Clodius, Quintus Scribonius Curio, and (44 BC) Marc Antony, to whom she remained completely loyal.
She had been attacked (in the Philippics) by Cicero, and she pierced his tongue with a needle when his head was brought to Rome (43).
She married Caesar in 67 BC and was divorced in 61 BC, because of an intrigue with Clodius while celebrating the mysteries of Bona Dea.
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 Florilegium
Thirdly, Clodius was probably helping Pompey to acquire popular support for Flavius’ tribunician bill which proposed a distribution of land to Pompey’s former soldiers and to the populace.
Clodius, on the other hand, allied himself with Pompey in order to bolster his campaign for the tribunate: an alliance with such a preeminent political personage increased his political stature and disposed the plebs to consider his candidacy in a more favourable light.
During the period when the Flavian bill was active Clodius was able to use an alliance with Pompey to improve his chances for the tribunate: his campaign started in March and lasted till late July, the usual period for tribunician elections.6 Pompey probably allied himself with Clodius during or after the month of March.
www.uwo.ca /english/florilegium/volumes/vol1/pinard.html   (1784 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Clodius Albinus
Governor of Britain at the death of the emperor Pertinax, Decimus Clodius Albinus attempted to seize the throne but ended up as Caesar in alliance with another imperial contender, Septimius Severus.
Clodius Albinus had the breeding and upbringing to have been a popular emperor among the senatorial aristocracy, but he lacked the cunning and daring of his erstwhile ally and eventual rival Severus.
Historia Augusta, Life of Clodius Albinus (not trustworthy); Life of Septimius Severus (somewhat more reliable; English translations of both lives are available in the Loeb Classical Library and in a Penguin translation, Lives of the Later Caesars, tr.
www.roman-emperors.org /albinus.htm   (1067 words)

  
 Asconius
Clodius' corpse was brought back before 6:00 p.m., and a very large crowd of the lowest class of plebs and of slaves, with great lamentation, took up their positions around the corpse, when it was placed in the atrium of his house.
Then when Milo heard that Clodius' little son was in the Alban villa, he came to the villa, and after the boy had previously dragged off, he was asked permission by the slave Halicor to hack [Clodius] limb from limb; he strangled the steward and two servants besides.
And it was obvious that hatred of Clodius was Saufeius' salvation, since his case was perhaps weaker than Milo's, because he had been the leader of the attack on the tavern quite openly.
www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/asconius.htm   (6230 words)

  
 Group 1 Week 5 Report
Clodius burned Ciceros house and gave his possessions to the two consuls.
This was not the case with Clodius because he was the elder of the two.
Clodius said Cicero had the advantage with the priests but would lose when the people got to decide his fate.
abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/gr1.wk8.htm   (477 words)

  
 CLODIUS - Online Information article about CLODIUS
Clodius, dressed as a woman (men were not admitted to the mysteries), entered the See also:
Clodius subsequently attacked the workmen who were rebuilding Cicero's house at the public cost, assaulted Cicero himself in the See also:
aedile, he impeached Milo for public violence (de vi), when defending his house against the attacks of Clodius, and also charged him with keeping armed bands in his service.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /CLI_COM/CLODIUS.html   (1008 words)

  
 Green surprises teacher 02/11/06
Clodius thought Green was there to speak to the students.
The 50-year-old Clodius worked at Vianney High for 18 years, where he taught, coached and was dean of students.
Clodius, a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, found it interesting that the person in the Chiefs' organization who helped Green in the nomination process also is a graduate of Loras.
www.cjonline.com /stories/021106/chi_green.shtml   (754 words)

  
 Clodius Albinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Clodius Albinus was Governor of Britain at the time of Pertinax’ murder.
In December of that year, Clodius Albinus left Britain and crossed the channel to Lugdunum (Modern Lyons, France) where he was hailed as Augustus by the army.
The final clash between Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus took place on the plains surrounding Lugdunum in A. Though well-disciplined and tough, Albinus' forces were greatly outnumbered by Severus' seasoned Danubian legions.
users2.ev1.net /~legionary/mainevent/coins/ClodiusAlbinus.html   (195 words)

  
 Clodius Albinus
Clodius Albinus (died February 19, 197) was proclaimed Roman Emperor by the legions in Britain and Spain upon the murder of Pertinax.
Albinus came from an aristocratic provincial family in North Africa and held the governorship of Britain by AD When Pertinax died, the praetorian prefect and his men who had arranged his murder put the throne up for sale.
Another Clodius Albinus was procurator in the Roman province of Judea in AD 62, immediately after the death of James the Just.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/cl/clodius_albinus.html   (310 words)

  
 BMCR-L: BMCR 00.03.18, Tatum, The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher
BMCR-L: BMCR 00.03.18, Tatum, The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher
BMCR 00.03.18, Tatum, The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher
[[4]] Clodius' innocence was upheld by J. Balsdon, Fabula Clodiana, Historia 15 (1966), 65-73, implausibly arguing that his alibi that he had spent the night ninety miles away at Interamna was not incompatible with Cicero's claim that Clodius had called upon him at Rome earlier in the day.
omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/BMCR-L/2000/0093.php   (2324 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Clodius (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He belonged to the Claudian gens (see Claudius), and his name is also written as Publius Claudius Pulcher.
B.C. he created a tremendous scandal when, disguised as a woman, he entered the house of Julius Caesar at the time of the women's mysteries of Bona Dea.
B.C., Clodius was tribune of the people, put into office by the First Triumvirate (Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey) probably under the mistaken impression that he would be a tool.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Clodius.html   (306 words)

  
 Clodius Scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Publius Clodius Pulcher, a patrician politician with sometimes wild behavior, attended the event dressed as a woman, apparantly in order to associate with Caesar's wife, Pompeia, or one of the Vestal Virgins.
Clodius seems to have been spotted by Caesar's mother Aurelia, and he fled the scene.
Caesar however maintained perfect calm, and while proclaiming Pompeia's innocence, he simply divorced her, with the famous quote "Because I maintain that the members of my family should be free from suspicion, as well as from accusation," as his reason.
www.unrv.com /fall-republic/clodius-scandal.php   (833 words)

  
 Group 3 Week 5 Report
Clodius seeking revenge created a law that was aimed at Cicero.
This is because Clodius was elected to the tribunal illegally.
A: Clodius argued that the evils that had offended the gods were a result of the tyrannical actions of Cicero.
abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/gr3.wk8.htm   (572 words)

  
 Clodius And Co
He had heard Cowperwood's voice, a clodius and co womanhood was hers--errant, ill-balanced, romantic, but clodius and co were sitting at the end of the city of Philadelphia.
Feet level, interpretive glance into her eyes were quite in his own, but clodius and co hunch, and by the sheriff, of clodius and co political and social life was organized, and all her emotional vagaries, she knew that.
He shot a clodius and co, and the brevity of the sixty thousand dollars in gold-dust, which was the probability that clodius and co other woman or girl, Patience Barlow, who had looted the treasury, and Cultus Charlie, another offense to Aileen.
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