Why did Clodius shut the shops? The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic
(2016)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2016). Why did Clodius shut the shops? The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic. Historia, 65(2), 186-210
When Publius Clodius ordered Rome’s tabernae to be shut for one of his meetings in 58, 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... Read More about Why did Clodius shut the shops? The rhetoric of mobilizing a crowd in the Late Republic.