Article: The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher.(Review)

The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher. By W. Jeffrey Tatum. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 365. $49.95.)

Biographies of ancient historical figures often lurch from one episode to another, with gaps where a dearth of evidence compels either silence or speculation. The actions of Clodius, however, figure so large in the works of his eventual enemy, Cicero, that it is possible to follow his political career almost continuously.

That career, starting with his first military service, possibly as an eighteen-year-old in 74 B.C., and ending with his murder in 52 B.C., forms the focus of this work. W. Jeffrey ...

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