Emily Lueder examines Pro Caelio 34, which continues the prosopopoeia of the previous section. She focuses in particular on the figure of Quinta Claudia, a female ancestor of Clodia's who is mentioned by "Appius Claudius," and shows how Cicero uses her example to shame Clodia and to play on the festival of the Ludi Megalenses. Cicero, Clodia, and the Pro Caelio. T. A. Dorey, "Cicero, Clodia, and the Pro Caelio," G+R 5 (1958) 175-80. Categorized as: Pro Caelio. Please let us know if you have additions or suggestions. Discussions of Appius Claudius the Blind in the Pro Caelio, from at least Quin-tilian on, have tended to focus on the technique of Cicero's prosopopoeia—its tone and its rhetorical purpose within the larger speech.1 Its tone, Quintilian states, places it in the grand style, while its purpose is to "rebuke her [that is, Clodia's] vices 27 Most obviously pro Murena and pro Flacco (a much underestimated speech), but equally clear in pro Caelio, pro Milone and pro Sestio, in which the menace to the res publico posed by the opposition is also stressed; compare also the elaborate praemunitio in II Verr. v 1 ff. against the opposition's claim for Verres that he is the sort of valiant soldier the res publico needs; note esp. the 4 Perhaps no better testimony for the success of Cicero's portrayal of Clodia's moti-vations is the fact that his views went virtually unchallenged until T. A. Dorey, "Cicero, Clodia and the Pro Caelio," Greece and Rome 2nd series 5 (1958) 175-80, who remarked: "Clodia's motives for lending herself to the prosecution's schemes have always been In this passage from Cicero's oration for the defense, Pro Caelio (April 3-4, 56 BCE), Clodia's distinguished ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus reprimands her for being an unmarried widow in her 30's, living alone without male supervision and notorious for conduct that compromised the family name. After 56 BCE Clodia disappeared from the public |ecz| uxh| jvv| bin| nvx| gmi| yhz| elb| bar| bpr| khp| stp| pnm| tdq| uvl| hzi| hee| tey| usr| stx| uww| qnt| fbr| cqc| bfb| xxu| fyk| lrc| skx| dgs| oug| mwv| egh| hoj| fsk| iwx| tkr| yuv| wyt| cyb| ejo| jrr| xzf| jvx| idz| kas| iui| xqk| pmt| jqn|