num_pages: 34
description: Cloelia, a young girl in ancient Rome held captive by an Etruscan king, plots an escape for forty hostages, but honors a pledge made to the king to return and the king, out of admiration, grants her and the other hostage their freedom.
language: English
title: Brave Cloelia: Retold from the Account in The History of Early Rome by the Roman Historian Titus Livius
titlecomplete: Brave Cloelia: Retold from the Account in The History of Early Rome by the Roman Historian Titus Livius
genres: Ancient, Picture Books, History, Ancient History
ratings_count: 23
publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum