HEADLINE: The Life and Political Downfall of Clodia, Champion of the Republic GUEST NAME: Douglas Boin SUMMARY: Professor Douglas Boin discusses Clodia's pivotal role in late Republican Rome, detailing her wealth, rivalry with Cicero, and her brother Clo
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
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HEADLINE: The Life and Political Downfall of Clodia, Champion of the Republic
GUEST NAME: Douglas Boin
SUMMARY: Professor Douglas Boin discusses Clodia's pivotal role in late Republican Rome, detailing her wealth, rivalry with Cicero, and her brother Clodius's murder, which preceded the Roman Civil War.
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:42.1 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor. I take us immediately to 95 BCE, the birth of a young woman who becomes a centerpiece of a wonderful new half-situation comedy, half-murder tragedy. The book is |
| 0:50.3 | Claudia, Claudia, champion of the republic. It's about an extremely well-born child who becomes |
| 0:57.6 | the center of a drama that we know as Julius Caesar. But this is approaching the same story |
| 1:05.8 | with almost all the same cast from the point of view of a young woman who grows up to marry and be proper as long as her husband lives. |
| 1:16.2 | Clodia. |
| 1:17.5 | Her last name tells a story also of her patronage, the APN way, or the aqueduct that feeds Rome. |
| 1:26.9 | I welcome the author, Douglas Boyne, a classicist, professor in St. Louis. |
| 1:34.9 | And it's important here to follow this story from the point of view of not Caesar, who passes through many of these scenes, Not Pompey, Caesar's rival. |
| 1:45.7 | Nothing that we recognize, including the murder of Caesar, |
| 1:49.0 | is essential to the understanding of how we get to the drama that we know as the Roman Civil War. |
| 1:56.2 | Douglas, Professor, congratulations. |
| 1:58.5 | This is wonderful. |
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