Publius Clodius Pulcher

Publius Clodius Pulcher (c. 93 BCE – December 52 BCE, on 18 Ianuarius of the pre-Julian calendar) is a Roman politician known for his popularist tactics.

As tribune, he pushes through an ambitious legislative program, including a grain dole, but is chiefly remembered for his feud with Cicero and Milo, whose supporters murder him in the street.

A Roman nobilis of the patrician gens Claudia, and a senator, he becomes a major, if disruptive, force in Roman politics during the rise of the First Triumvirate of Pompey, Crassus and Caesar (60–53 BCE).

He passes numerous laws in the tradition of the populares (the Leges Clodiae).

Recent scholarship, especially the 1999 biography by W. Jeffrey Tatum, has tried to counteract a largely hostile tradition based on the invective of his opponent Cicero and to present a more balanced picture of Clodius's politics.

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