The Location of the Houses of Cicero and Clodius and The Porticus Catuli on the Palatine Hill in Rome

Auteur: Cerutti, Steven M.
Titre: The Location of the Houses of Cicero and Clodius and The Porticus Catuli on the Palatine Hill in Rome
Revue/Collection: "American Journal of Philology ", 1, 118, Number 3 (Whole Number 471
Pages: 417-426
Mots-clès: Histoire - Storia - History
Description: [Abstract] The location of cicero’s house on the Palatine hill in Rome is a matter of more than ordinary interest, inasmuch as he locates it for us in relation to a number of other important houses and buildings, and recent archaeological investigations at the southwest corner of the hill can be used to throw fresh light on this question. Cicero’s house almost certainly stood along the higher leg of the Clivus Victoriae, along the northwest side of the hill running from the north corner to the precinct of the Magna Mater. Here it would have overlooked the Forum Romanum, as Cicero says in conspectu prope totius urbis (Dom. 100). On one side it adjoined the Porticus Catuli, which Clodius enlarged by the addition of a part of Cicero’s property, but only a fraction (vix pars aedium mearum decima,Dom. 116), after destroying Cicero’s house during Cicero’s self-imposed exile in 58 B.C. However, since Cicero regarded his as a large and noble house (Dom. 115; cf. Har. Resp. 16, Fam. 6.18.5), that tenth might have been a not inconsiderable parcel. Furthermore, in De Haruspicum Responso (49) Cicero tells us that Clodius announced in public assembly...
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