{"title":"Why Did Cicero Betroth Tullia to Furius Crassipes?","authors":"Xiaoxi Zhang","doi":"10.1353/clw.2022.0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article re-examines why Cicero betrothed his daughter Tullia to Furius Crassipes in April of 56 bce. Previous scholarship emphasized social and personal factors in Cicero's decision, but I highlight his political considerations. After returning from exile, Cicero endeavored to handle political affairs with caution and to have good relations with the optimates, Pompey, and Caesar (or at least to offend none of them blatantly). Thus he chose Crassipes, a young man who (insofar as the extant evidence suggests) was born into a family neither politically prominent nor active, to help himself maintain neutrality.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL WORLD","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2022.0010","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:This article re-examines why Cicero betrothed his daughter Tullia to Furius Crassipes in April of 56 bce. Previous scholarship emphasized social and personal factors in Cicero's decision, but I highlight his political considerations. After returning from exile, Cicero endeavored to handle political affairs with caution and to have good relations with the optimates, Pompey, and Caesar (or at least to offend none of them blatantly). Thus he chose Crassipes, a young man who (insofar as the extant evidence suggests) was born into a family neither politically prominent nor active, to help himself maintain neutrality.
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Classical World (ISSN 0009-8418) is the quarterly journal of The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, published on a seasonal schedule with Fall (September-November), Winter (December-February), Spring (March-May), and Summer (June-August) issues. Begun in 1907 as The Classical Weekly, this peer-reviewed journal publishes contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman literature, history, and society.
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