Description: Further DetailsTitle: Clodia MetelliCondition: NewSubtitle: The Tribune's SisterISBN-10: 0195375017EAN: 9780195375015ISBN: 9780195375015Publisher: Oxford University Press IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/03/2011Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 161mmItem Width: 17mmItem Weight: 312gAuthor: Marilyn B. SkinnerGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Ancient History, HistoryBook Series: Women in AntiquityRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Clodia Metelli
Title: Clodia Metelli
Subtitle: The Tribune's Sister
ISBN-10: 0195375017
EAN: 9780195375015
ISBN: 9780195375015
Release Date: 02/03/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Clodia Metelli : the Tribune's Sister
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Ancient / Rome, General, Women's Studies, Historical
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Marilyn B. Skinner
Subject Area: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Women in Antiquity Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
