CLODIA

klōˈdĕə, fl. 1st cent. b.c., Roman matron, famous among the ancient Romans for her beauty; sister of Publius Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (see Metellus, family), and she accused her lover, Marcus Caelius Rufus, of trying to murder her. According to tradition one of her many lovers was the poet Catullus; if this is true then it was she whom he immortalized as Lesbia.

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Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Aelite from Cornelia to Julia Domna
Book by Emily A. Hemelrijk; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Rome--Civilization, Rome--Social Life And Customs, Upper Class Women--Education--Rome--History, Upper Class Women--Rome--History, Upper Class Women--Rome--Intellectual Life
27-8 imagines Clodia in the role of a librettist of pantomime...to mime and pantomime Cicero associates Clodia with sexual licentiousness both because...meretrices . For Ciceros invective against Clodia in his Pro Caelio, see also chapter 3...
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Catullus
Book by Catullus, Henry V. Bender, Phyllis Young Forsyth; Bolchazy-Carducci, 2005
Subjects: Epigrams, Latin, Latin Language--Readers--Poetry, Love Poetry, Latin, Rome--Poetry
modern scholars believe that Catullus Clodia was the wife of Quintus Metellus Celer...even theorize that Catullus had first met Clodia in Cisalpine Gaul and then had followed...public as an amoral thug-for-hire. Clodia, who was at least ten years older than...
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Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius
Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Robert A. Kaster; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism And Interpretation, Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Pro Sestio, Sestius, Publius
...on electoral corruption: 67), 375 lex Clodia (declaring that Cicero had been exiled...282, 335, 371, 375,396-7,412 lex Clodia (on Byzantine exiles: 58), 245-7, 395 lex Clodia (on Catos mission: 58), 245, 254...
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Women and Politics in Ancient Rome
Book by Richard A. Bauman; Routledge, 1992
Subjects: Women In Politics--Rome, Women--Rome
...strength of Ciceros insinuations against Clodia; he was not sure enough of his ground...seems that a certain Vettius had done Clodia an injury; according to Plutarch she...to Cicero in the Catilinarian affair, Clodia will have struck a powerful blow at an...
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Stereotypes of Women in Power: Historical Perspectives and Revisionist Views
Book by Barbara Garlick, Suzanne Dixon, Pauline Allen; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Power (Social Sciences), Women In Politics--History
...was said to have been a former lover. Clodia must have been about thirty. She was, at the time, a widow. 26 Clodia was not concerned with the bulk of...Cicero bases his moral case against Clodia into which he has turned his defense...
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Catullus and Horace on Roman Women Poets
Journal article by Judith P. Hallett; Antichthon, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Children & youth, Competition, Poetry, Poets, Women
...pseudonym for this womans actual name of Clodia.9 Her identity, family and representation...attention. Scholars generally identify this Clodia as the wife of another Caecilius, Quintus...region in which Verona is located.10 This Clodia, therefore, is the sister of the demagogue...
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Catullus 17 and 67, and the Catullan Construct
Journal article by Judy Deuling; Antichthon, Vol. 40, 2006
...marriage of Quintus Metellus Celer and Clodia, or rather Lesbia, as portrayed by Catullus...Quintus Metellus Celer, the husband of Clodia/Lesbia. Her nature may be reflected...Metellus Celer (d. 59 BC), the husband of Clodia/Lesbia. John Zarker makes a case for...
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Catullus and the Brothel-creepers:1 Carmen 37
Journal article by Lindsay Watson; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Poetry, Poets
...parallel charge in the pro Caelio that Clodia lived meretricio more, in the manner...implant in the jurors minds the idea that Clodia, like a prostitute, takes all comers...is seen in Ciceros characterisation of Clodia, praesertim cum ea quam omnes semper...
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Catullus in the Playground
Journal article by Anna Jackson; Antichthon, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Poetry, Poets, Syntax
...might disapprove of these young lovers: Clodia do you care does it chip at you that the...knocks perpetual dormitory? Lose count Clodia lip and tongue tell but not number nor...sandgrains - ask a conventional question, Clodia . . . What she can expect in reply is...
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Introduction
Journal article by Marguerite Johnson; Antichthon, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Books, Poets, Reading, Society
...and the door (poem 67) are allegories of Metellus Celer and Clodia Metelli respectively. Deuling also references reader response...Lesbia. Hallett argues for a historical reading of Lesbia as Clodia Metelli, and suggests that she may well have earned the Catullan...
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Spaces in the Past: Martin Evans Talks to Helen Dunmore, Whose Historical Novels Range from the Worst Horrors of Twentieth-Century, Warfare to the Luxurious World of Late Republican Rome
Magazine article by Martin Evans; History Today, Vol. 58, April 2008
Subjects: Authors--Works, Dunmore, Helen--Works, Writers--Works
...relationship between the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli who, drawn from the highest echelons of society, has...the rest of his life. And there is the relationship between Clodia and her personal slave Aemilia. Aemilia knows everything about...


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Sexus Maximus! the Poet Who Made Even the Romans Blush; as a Bank Boss Sends a Female Worker a Filthy Verse by Catullus
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 27, 2009
...the very heart of the establishment. Clodia Metelli (whom he addressed in his poems...despite -- or perhaps because -- of this, Clodia was repeatedly the object of venomous...Catullus himself, when he was dumped by Clodia after a short affair, did not hesitate...
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Sexus Maximus! the Poet Who Made Even the Romans Blush; as a City Boss Sends a Female Worker a Filthy Verse by Catullus
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 25, 2009
Subjects: Poets, Working women
...the very heart of the establishment. Clodia Metelli (whom he addressed in his poems...despite -- or perhaps because -- of this, Clodia was repeatedly the object of venomous...Catullus himself, when he was dumped by Clodia after a short affair, did not hesitate...
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New Fiction
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 17, 2008
...was in fact apowerful noblewoman called Clodia whose scandalous behaviour shocked Romansociety...much is known of the real Catullus and Clodia, but that allows HelenDunmore to let...superbly crafted andvery plausible world. Clodia is enigmatic, selfish and hedonistic...
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New Fiction
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 8, 2008
...inspirationfor this highly charged story of an illicit passion. Dunmore identifies Catulluss love as Clodia, wife of a powerful Roman,Metellus Celer. Clodia occasionally finds time for the lovesick poet between her busy scheduleof friends to meet...
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Ancient Rome (for T Rex Lovers)
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 18, 2009
...aquiline, randy and quite terrifyingly ambitious. There is Pompey: big, bluff and booming, with his funny quiff. There is Clodia Metella, one of the horniest women in history, who spends her time either in bed with her pretty-boy brother, driving other...
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encyclopedia articles on: Clodia  - 4 results

 
 
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Clodia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CLODIA klo de , fl. 1st cent. b.c., Roman matron, famous among the ancient Romans for her beauty; sister of Publius Clodius...
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Clodius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and his name is also written as Publius Claudius Pulcher. He was brother to Appius Claudius Pulcher and to the notorious Clodia. In 62 b.c. he created a tremendous scandal when, disguised as a woman, he entered the house of Julius Caesar at the time...
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Catullus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Roman poet, b. Verona. Of a well-to-do family, he went c.62 b.c. to Rome. He fell deeply in love, probably with Clodia, sister of Ciceros opponent Publius Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband. Catullus wrote to his beloved...
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Metellus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...led him to oppose Pompey in every detail, thus driving Pompey into the fateful alliance with Julius Caesar. Celers wife, Clodia , was said to have poisoned him. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, d. c.55 b.c., brother of Celer, served with Pompey...


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