Clodius is the
RomanRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...
nomen
ClaudiusThe gens Claudia was one of the oldest patrician families in ancient Rome. For several centuries its members were regularly leaders of the city and empire. In the names assigned to periods by historians, the Julio-Claudian dynasty of initial Roman emperors derives in part from the gens Claudia. Any...
altered to a spelling that would have sounded plebeian to Roman ears. The original alteration was a political maneuver by
Publius Clodius PulcherPublius Clodius Pulcher , was a Roman politician known for his popularist tactics...
.
Discussion
Ask a question about 'Clodius' Start a new discussion about 'Clodius' Answer questions from other users |
Clodius is the
RomanRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...
nomen
ClaudiusThe gens Claudia was one of the oldest patrician families in ancient Rome. For several centuries its members were regularly leaders of the city and empire. In the names assigned to periods by historians, the Julio-Claudian dynasty of initial Roman emperors derives in part from the gens Claudia. Any...
altered to a spelling that would have sounded plebeian to Roman ears. The original alteration was a political maneuver by
Publius Clodius PulcherPublius Clodius Pulcher , was a Roman politician known for his popularist tactics...
.
- Publius Clodius Pulcher, Republican politician
- Clodia
Clodia, Clodia, Clodia, (born Claudia Pulchra Tercia ca. 95 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica....
, second sister of Publius Clodius
- Clodius Aesopus
Clodius Aesopus was the most celebrated tragic actor of Ancient Rome in time of Cicero, that is, the 1st century BC, but the dates of his birth and death are not known...
, tragedian 50s BC-Events and trends:* First Triumvirate: a secret pact for mutual advantage between Roman politicians Julius Caesar, Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus -Events and trends:* First Triumvirate: a secret pact for mutual advantage between Roman politicians Julius Caesar, Pompey and Marcus Licinius...
- Caius Clodius Vestalis, possible builder of Via Clodia
Via Clodia was an ancient high-road of Italy. Its course, for the first 11 miles, was the same as that of the Via Cassia; it then diverged to the north in a northwest direction and ran on the west side of the Lacus Sabatinus, past Forum Clodii and Blera...
- Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus
Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Roman senator and Stoic philosopher, lived during the reign of Nero. He was the husband of Arria the daughter of Arria, father-in-law of Helvidius Priscus, and a friend and kinsman of the poet Persius.- Early life and lineage :...
, senator during Nero'sNero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great uncle Claudius to become heir to the throne...
reign
- Lucius Clodius Macer
Lucius Clodius Macer was a legatus of the Roman Empire in Africa in the time of Nero. He revolted in May 68, cutting off the food supply of Rome, possibly at the instigation of Calvia Crispinilla...
, legatusA legatus was a general in the Roman army, equivalent to a modern general officer. Being of senatorial rank, his immediate superior was the dux, and he outranked all military tribunes...
who revolted against NeroNero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great uncle Claudius to become heir to the throne...
- Publius Clodius Quirinalis, from Arelate in Gaul
Gaul is a historical name used in the context of the Roman Empire in references to the region of Western Europe approximating present day France and Belgium, but also sometimes including the Po Valley, western Switzerland, and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River...
, teacher of rhetoricRhetoric is one of the arts of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public...
in time of NeroNero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great uncle Claudius to become heir to the throne...
- Decimus Clodius Albinus
Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus was a Roman usurper proclaimed emperor by the legions in Britain and Hispania upon the murder of Pertinax.-Life:...
, rival emperor 196-Roman Empire:* Septimus Severus's troops capture and sack Byzantium, and retake Mesopotamia.* In order to assure the support of the legions in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul....
-197-Roman Empire:* 19 February—Battle of Lugdunum: Roman usurper Albinus is defeated by the forces of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus.* Lyon, which had been the headquarters of Clodius Albinus, is sacked and destroyed....
- Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus, co-emperor 238
-Roman Empire:* Carpians invade Moesia; Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns against them.* In spite of the payment of a tribute, the Romans fail to persuade the Goths and the Carpians to withdraw from Moesia.* March 7—Gordian I and Gordian II become Roman Emperors...
- Clodius Celsinus Adelphus
Clodius Celsinus Adelphius , a Pagan, was a Corrector of Apulia et Calabria, Proconsul and Praefectus Urbi from 7 June to 18 December 351. He was the son of Clodius Celsinus , a Pagan, paternal grandson of Clodius Celsinus , a Pagan, and great-grandson of Quintus Fabius Clodius Agrippianus Celsinus...
, Prefect, the father of:
- Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius
Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius , was the Consul of Rome in 379 with Decimus Magnus Ausonius. He was the son of Clodius Celsinus Adelphus, Prefect of Rome....
(born ca 335-Roman Empire:* 19 September—Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar.* November 7—Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented the corn fleet from sailing to Constantinople....
), Consul in 379-Roman Empire:* January 19—Theodosius I is elevated as Roman Emperor at Sirmium.* Gratianus refuses the title of Eastern Emperor.* Gratian renounces the title pontifex maximus.-Asia:* Ardeshir II becomes King of Persia....
ClodioChlodio was a king of the Salian Franks from the Merovingian dynasty. He was known as the Long-Haired King and lived at a place on the Thuringian border called Dispargum. From there he invaded the Roman Empire in 428 and settled in Northern Gaul, where already other groups of Salians were settled...
the Longhair, a chieftain of the
Salian FranksThe Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally had been living north of the limes in the coastal area above the Rhine in the northern Netherlands, where today there still is a region called Salland. The Merovingian kings, responsible for the conquest of Gaul were of...
, is sometime called "Clodius I".