Caecilia Metella was a Roman matron of the first century BC, who belonged to the powerful family of the Caecilii Metelli. She was possibly the mother of Clodius.
Roma - Tomba di Cecilia Metella
Publius Clodius Pulcher
Videos
Publius Clodius Pulcher was a Roman politician and demagogue. A noted opponent of Cicero, he was responsible during his plebeian tribunate in 58 BC for a massive expansion of the Roman grain dole as w
Denarius attributed to, among others, Appius Claudius Pulcher, Clodius' father, minted in 111 or 110 BC. It depicts a helmeted Roma on the obverse with Victory leading a three-horse chariot (triga).
Fictitious portrait of Catiline, the leader of the Catilinarian conspiracy, in the painting Cicero denounces Catiline in the Roman senate by Cesare Maccari (19th century)
Portrait of Cicero from the 1st century AD, currently in the Capitoline Museums. Clodius likely supported Lucius Licinius Murena and Cicero during the crisis.
Statue of Bona Dea, the goddess whose rites in the pontifex maximus' house Clodius infiltrated