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Aristocratic Origins And Expectations
- Clodia came from the aristocratic Claudii family and was well connected in Roman elite circles.
- Her background set expectations that she would make important marital and political alliances.
Women’s Economic And Social Agency
- Elite Roman women could manage property, slaves, and business and sometimes had significant household influence.
- The late Republic may have been a peak period for independent female agency before the imperial era.
Political Alignments Were Fluid
- Clodia’s family aligned politically through marriage, but she and her brother Clodius later positioned themselves with the populares.
- Clodius’s politics were opportunistic, so family alignment wasn’t strictly ideological.