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Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister
Contributor(s): Skinner, Marilyn B. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195375017     ISBN-13: 9780195375015
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $48.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2010009169
Series: Women in Antiquity
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (0.66 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Italy
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2011
 
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Publisher Description:
Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. Clodia, widow of the consul Metellus Celer, was one of several
prominent females who made a mark on history during the last decades of the Roman Republic. As the eldest sister of the populist demagogue P. Clodius Pulcher, she used her wealth and position to advance her brother's political goals. For that she was brutally reviled by Clodius' enemy, the orator M.
Tullius Cicero, in a speech painting her as a scheming, debauched whore. Clodia may also have been the alluring mistress celebrated in the love poetry of Catullus, whom he calls Lesbia in homage to Sappho and depicts as beautiful, witty, but also false and corrupt. From Cicero's letters, finally,
we receive glimpses of a very different woman, a great lady at her leisure. This study examines Clodia in the contexts of her family background, the societal expectations for a woman of her rank, and the turbulent political climate in which she operated. It weighs the value of the several kinds of
testimony about her and attempts to extract a picture as faithful to historical truth as possible. The manner in which Clodia was represented in writings of the period, and the motives of their authors in portraying her as they did, together shed considerable light on the role played by female
figures in Roman fiction and historiography.
 
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