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4. Clodia Reclaims Her Historical Voice Douglas Boin - DOUGLAS BOIN 090726
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Clodia Reclaims Her Historical Voice
Douglas Boin, author of Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Roman Republic, shifts the focus of the late Roman Republicto Clodia, an independent, wealthy aristocratic woman who challenged Rome's patriarchal establishment. Boin reconstructs her life on the Palatine Hill, her stormy marriage, and her political alliance with her reformist brother Clodius. The narrative culminates in the famous sedition and murder trial of her former lover Marcus Caelius Rufus, where Marcus Tullius Cicero delivered a highly misogynistic defense that influenced rhetoric for two entire millennia. (2)
Clodia Reclaims Her Historical Voice
Douglas Boin, author of Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Roman Republic, shifts the focus of the late Roman Republicto Clodia, an independent, wealthy aristocratic woman who challenged Rome's patriarchal establishment. Boin reconstructs her life on the Palatine Hill, her stormy marriage, and her political alliance with her reformist brother Clodius. The narrative culminates in the famous sedition and murder trial of her former lover Marcus Caelius Rufus, where Marcus Tullius Cicero delivered a highly misogynistic defense that influenced rhetoric for two entire millennia. (2)