Clodia (wife of Metellus)

For other people with similar names, see Claudia.
Clodia
Clodia from the Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
Born
c. 95 or 94 BC Rome
Died
Rome
SpouseQuintus Caecilius Metellus Celer

Clodia (born Claudia, c. 95 or 94 BC),[1] nicknamed Quadrantaria ("Quarter", from quadrantarius, the price of a visit to the public baths), Nola ("The Unwilling", from the verb nolo, in sarcastic reference to her alleged wantonness), Medea Palatina ("Medea of the Palatine") by Cicero (see below), and occasionally referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli[2][3][4] ("Metellus's Clodia"),[i] was one of three known daughters of the ancient Roman patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher.

Like many other women of the Roman elite, Clodia was very well-educated in Greek and philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry.[2] Her life, which was characterized by perpetual scandal, is immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus.[5]

  1. ^ Schwabe, Ludwig. Quaestiones Catullianae (Gissae, 1862), 59.
  2. ^ a b Wiseman, T. P.: "Catullus and His World: A Reappraisal".(1987)
  3. ^ Marilyn B. Skinner, "Clodia Metelli", Transactions of the American Philological Association 113 (1983), pp. 273–287, JSTOR 284015
  4. ^ H. D. Rankin, 'Clodia II', L'Antiquité Classique, 38 (2) (1969), pp. 501-506, JSTOR 41648748
  5. ^ Billows, Richard A. (2009). Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome. Routledge. pp. 178, 202, 203. ISBN 978-0415333146.


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