A number of sources allude to gossip around Caesar and homoeroticism:

#Catullus 93 (nil nimium studeo, Caesar): http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-lat1:93

#Suetonius Life of Caesar §49 (where the epithet appears): http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Julius*.html

#Plutarch Life of Caesar §10 (on the Bona Dea scandal): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Caes.+10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0244

#histodons#antiquidons #ancient #ancmed #ancienthistory #juliuscaesar #clodius #teaching

I introduced the “Queen of Bithynia” to my #romanhistory students today—aka Gaius Julius #Caesar. They also couldn’t get enough of his connection to #Clodius in the #BonaDea scandal

My #romanhistory students are very interested in the role of #furniture in the work of the #historian #Appian – first the public assembly benches broken up and weaponized against Tiberius #Gracchus and his allies; and today, chairs from the old Senate house nabbed by a mob for the cremation of the populist #Clodius, which burned the building down in the process. In both cases, the basic infrastructure of the #RomanRepublic is used in its unmaking