Clodius the ” pulcher ” in Catullus and Cicero

Autore: Butrica, James Lawrence Peter
Titolo: Clodius the ” pulcher ” in Catullus and Cicero
Rivista/Miscellanea: "Classical Quarterly", NS 52, 2
Luogo edizione: Cambridge
Editore: Cambridge University Press
Anno edizione: 2002
Pagine: 507-516
Parole chiave: Politique - Politica - Politics, Prosopographie - Prosopografia - Prosopography
Descrizione: [L'Annèe philologique] [Comment] Catullus 79 has nothing to do with rumors of incest or even with oral sex per se ; instead, it attacks P. Clodius Pulcher by punning on his cognomen to suggest that all who know him regard him as an « exoletus » and therefore shun him, while it also implicitly criticizes Lesbia for preferring this « exoletus » over Catullus. Cicero's lost speech against Clodius denouncing his infiltration of the rites of the Bona Dea also probably had as its main theme an attack on Clodius as an « exoletus ».
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Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3556415?seq=1
Sigla autore: Butrica 2002