Why did Clodius shut the shops? The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic

Amy Russell

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Why did Clodius shut the shops?

The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic

Russell, Amy

From the journal Historia Historia, Volume 65, June 2016, issue 2

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag

article, 14696 Words
Original language: English
Historia 2016, pp 186-210
https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2016-0011

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When Publius Clodius ordered Rome’s tabernae to be shut for one of his meetings in 58 B C, he was not only trying to gather a crowd by forcing tabernarii onto the street. Shutting the shops was a symbolic move alluding to the archaic iustitium and to the actions of Tiberius Gracchus. It allowed Clodius to claim both that his meeting was vital to the safety of the res publica and that he (and not Cicero) had the support of the entire Roman people, including the lowliest.

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