Clodia Metelli
Subtitle: the tribune's sister
By: Marilyn B. Skinner.
Series: Women in antiquity
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195375008; 9780195375015
Subjects: Clodia, -- 94-53 B.C; Clodia, -- 94-53 B.C. -- Family; Clodia, -- 94-53 B.C. -- Influence; Women -- Rome -- Biography; Women -- Rome -- Social conditions; Statesmen's spouses -- Rome -- Biography; Patricians (Rome) -- Biography; Rome -- Biography; Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C
Genres: Biography
Description: "Clodia, (born Claudia Pulchra Prima or Maior or also Quadrantaria c. 95 BC or c. 94 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica. She is not to be confused with her niece, Clodia Pulchra, who was briefly married to Octavian. Like many other women of the Roman elite, Clodia was very well educated in Greek and Philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry. Her life, immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and also, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, was characterized by perpetual scandal."--Wikipedia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Genealogies of Clodia Metelli and her siblings; title: Cicero as a biographical source; title: The gens Claudia; title: Women and wealth; title: The Claudii Pulchri; title: The Metelli; title: Palatine Medea; title: Lesbia; title: Afterword: A woman in a man's world.