Wednesday, January 18, 2006

 

This Day in Ancient History

On this day in in 52 BC, Publius Clodius Pulcher was murdered by a mob in the streets of Rome, near Bovillae. One of the more vindictive of Roman politicians, Clodius maintained a long running feud with Cicero. This is the guy who crashed the woman's party and only escaped prosecution by bribing the judge. And in further proof that the ancient world was indeed a small one, his sister, Clodia, is the character Lesbia in a cycle of poems by Catullus and apparently a heart-breaking, round heeled bitch.

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