Cicero on Clodia
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- Created on: 05-05-14 09:18
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- Cicero on Clodia
- cicero is defending Marcus Caelius Rufus (a former Protégé)
- law court against charges of attempted murder
- late first centaury AD
- entertains the jury with sarcasm and wit as they have been brought in on a bank holiday
- the accusations
- the gold
- was lent from Clodia to bribe dio slaves to help with the poisoning
- the poison
- he used it to attempt to poison ambassador Dio
- he then tried to poison Clodia after either to remove her as a witness or because he hated her
- shows deep hatred after being cruelly jilted
- the gold
- he turns the attention away from Caelius and onto Clodia
- she was from a noble family
- but feels it is wrong to refer her as a roman matron after the disrespectful deeds she has done
- if she will not confirm that she lent him the gold and doesn't accuse him of trying to kill her then there is no case
- if she was to be removed from the case then they would have nothing to attack caelius with
- she had many affairs and was said to be the lesbian of Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus
- Cicero refers to her as being 'everyone's friend'
- what he means is that she sleeps with everyone
- she became a symbol of everything that is corrupt and wrong about women
- she was likened to medea and Clytemnestra
- 'gives herself freely to everyone-I mean everyone'
- Cicero refers to her as being 'everyone's friend'
- she was from a noble family
- techniques
- flatters the jury
- 'you Gnaeus Domiutius, smart at you are understand we are only concerned with this woman'
- on purpose mixes up Clodia's brother and husband
- showing how loose her morals were
- her accusations are either lies or due to the nature of her character she should be given the respect and be trusted
- flatters the jury
- he hypothetically questions her using Caecus the blind, a deceased relative of hers
- her father, uncle, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-great grandfather were all consuls
- she should be more respectful and upheld her high reputation
- her husband was Quintus Metellus
- he was devoted to his country, noble, courageous, glorious and had a good reputation
- as is wife how could she mix with Caelius
- Caelius was not a relative, relative by marriage or friend of her husband he was just 'sheer unbridled passion'
- as is wife how could she mix with Caelius
- he was devoted to his country, noble, courageous, glorious and had a good reputation
- he was a traditionalist
- he didn't build the aqueduct so that she could wash herself after having sex with her brother
- he didn't rebuild the road so that she could parade with other women's husbands
- her father, uncle, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-great grandfather were all consuls
- he then uses Quinta Claudia to question her
- noble matron who brought the statue of the goddess Ostia to rome to give rome victory in war
- Claudia was a vestal virgin
- she brought honour to their household
- she defended her father when the tribune of the people tried to pull him down from his chariot
- she brought honour to their household
- she was a widow to Quintus Metellus and it was thought she killed him
- cicero hated clodia because he had a long feud with her brother, clodius
- clodius had sent cicero into exile and destroyed cicero's house and brothers house
- Baiae
- was a luxury resort in Naples where aristocratic Romans would have their holidays
- cicero is defending Marcus Caelius Rufus (a former Protégé)
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