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Clodia

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Author : Julia Dyson Hejduk
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-10-30

Clodia written by Julia Dyson Hejduk and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman history Noble and notorious, the flamboyant Clodia Metelli was the object of passion in poetry and prose in ancient Rome and appears in more written sources than any other woman of her day. Cicero, in a famous oration, branded her a whore yet in private correspondence mentions seeking her help. Her stormy affair with the poet Catullus—the Western world’s first recorded romance with a real and richly characterized woman—had a profound influence on erotic literature. Bringing together works by Cicero, Catullus, and others in which Clodia plays a part, Julia Dyson Hejduk has produced a striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman history. Her accurate and accessible English translations include not only all the classical texts that mention Clodia, but also a substantial selection of Roman erotic poetry by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. While many sourcebooks offer only small illustrative excerpts, Clodia provides most sources in their entirety, such as the Pro Caelio of Cicero, nineteen complete letters, all of Catullus’s poems on “Lesbia” (his pseudonym for Clodia), and many subsequent love elegies. Hejduk’s translations please the ear while remaining faithful to the original meaning. Her introduction reviews topics in classical culture and themes in Roman love poetry, placing the texts in their literary, social, and historical context and making them accessible to high school students and undergraduates. Notes, glossary, and bibliography make the book a well-rounded teaching tool.

Clodia Metelli

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Author : Marilyn B. Skinner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

Clodia Metelli written by Marilyn B. Skinner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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.

I Clodia And Other Portraits

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Author : Anna Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-20

I Clodia And Other Portraits written by Anna Jackson and has been published by Auckland University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Poetry categories.

By giving Clodia - the 'Lesbia' of Catullus's famous love poetry - her own first-person narration, Anna Jackson upends and reinvigorates the beloved classical sequence with biting wit and tender attention. The photographer in the second sequence reads, writes, gives presents and considers the art of portraiture. But who is examining, and who is being examined? Above all else, Anna Jackson takes us within and without a range of characters in her characteristically witty style.

Behind Lesbia S Door Her Slave Girls Shocking Revelations The 700 Year Old Mystery Of Catullus S Song Poem 67 Solved Via Cicero S Pro Cae

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Author : Gaetano Catelli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-08-01

Behind Lesbia S Door Her Slave Girls Shocking Revelations The 700 Year Old Mystery Of Catullus S Song Poem 67 Solved Via Cicero S Pro Cae written by Gaetano Catelli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with History categories.

Clodia ("the Beautiful") Metelli's lineage is comparable to a current British Royal: "By the reckoning of the imperial biographer Suetonius, the patrician Claudii amassed during the lifetime of the Republic a total of twenty-eight consulships, five dictatorships, seven censorships, six triumphs, and two ovations" (Skinner). Wiseman summarizes: "[M]ulier nobilis [noble-woman] is putting it mildly: This daughter of the patrician Claudii was not merely a member of an ornamental social élite, but at the heart of the ruling class of the Roman Republic." Clodia is also the object of a lifelong obsession of the greatest love poet of ancient Rome, the emotionally volatile Gaius "the Puppy" Catullus, whose term of endearment for his inamorata is Lesbia - an allusion to the poetess Sappho of the Isle of Lesbos. And, during the final decades of his life, the Golden Age of Roman literature's greatest writer of prose, conservative stalwart Marcus Tullius "Chick-Pea" Cicero, also, is preoccupied with Clodia - in his censorious (and envious) fashion. In addition to her activities as poetess, playwright, and patroness of younger men of various talents (Austin), Clodia is involved in radical politics, via promoting the career of her youngest brother, Clodius "Pretty-Boy" Pulcher, an effete demagogue who is not above employing his mob of plebeian followers to influence political outcomes. According to Cicero, Clodia has enjoyed a 'special relationship' with her pretty little brother since their youth. Even by the standards of ancient Rome, Clodia is controversial; and the controversy continues to the present day. In contradiction to the testimonia of both Cicero and Catullus, Skinner, the leading authority on Clodia, writes: "[T]he Clodia of history turns out to be the direct antithesis of the Clodia of myth"; and, "It is hard to think of her as the victim of unruly passions; she seems, on the contrary, firmly in control of her own life." Based upon the extant record, it does appear that Clodia is not the "victim" of anyone or anything. Rather, it seems that her cuckold-husband, "Swifty" Celer - a military commander and Consul of the Roman Empire; Catullus the febrile "New Poet"; the tall, temperamental russet-haired Caelius; and Cicero, the great orator and former Consul (driven into exile for a time by Clodia's brother Clodius), in one way or another, are her victims. At all events, the irreducible fact is that however much either or both of Cicero and Catullus may be exaggerating the sensational elements of Clodia's conduct, no other woman of the ancient West has inspired so much rousing prose and arousing poetry, by two authors who know her personally. Catullus begins Carmen 5, the first in which he addresses Clodia as Lesbia: Let's live and let's love, my Lesbia / and prize the prattle of all the / prudish prunes at a penny! Alas, Catullus: Be careful what you wish for. "Rusty" Caelius, Catullus's boyhood friend as well as Cicero's prodigal former protege, eventually supersedes Catullus in Lesbia's affections, concurrently with her husband's mysterious death. Three years later, Clodia is in the Roman Forum accusing Caelius of having attempted to poison her. Following the (likely guilty) Caelius's acquittal due to his counsel Cicero's blistering attack on Clodia's morals, Catullus composes Song-poem 67 (the central focus of this work), "The Door". It might candidly be subtitled "And That's Not All!" Unsure himself what to believe, with gleeful malice the jilted Catullus's song-poem puts in the 'mouth' of a talkative front door (of Clodia's original marital home in Catullus's native Verona) the shocking slave-girl gossip emanating from within, both regarding the true nature of Clodia's marriage to Celer the cuckolded Consul, and the real reason Clodia has accused Caelius of trying to poison her.

Clodia Fabula Criminalis

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Author : Andrew Olimpi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06

Clodia Fabula Criminalis written by Andrew Olimpi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with Education categories.

The Complete Poetry Of Catullus

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Author : Catullus
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2002-05-20

The Complete Poetry Of Catullus written by Catullus and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-20 with Poetry categories.

Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus. David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroy’s lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar.

Clodia Based On The Love Of The Poet Catullus For Clodia

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Author : Robert De Maria
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965

Clodia Based On The Love Of The Poet Catullus For Clodia written by Robert De Maria and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.

Mastered By Her Slave

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Author : Greta Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2013-09-01

Mastered By Her Slave written by Greta Gilbert and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-01 with Fiction categories.

Rome, 80 AD Torn between a forced marriage and the threat of assassination, Clodia is desperate to escape the cruel, dangerous world of the Imperial city. But the greatest challenge the young widow faces is her forbidden desire for the one man who can save her—her fearless bodyguard slave. A proud warrior brought to Rome in chains, Artair's hunger for freedom is almost as strong as his hunger for his beautiful domina. Artair's fierce loyalty to Clodia soon leads him into the brutal gladiatorial arena, where he is prepared to sacrifice his life to defend her honor…

The Case For The Prosecution In The Ciceronian Era

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Author : Michael Charles Alexander
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-02-24

The Case For The Prosecution In The Ciceronian Era written by Michael Charles Alexander and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-24 with History categories.

"The Case for the Prosecution in the Ciceronian Era is primarily a work of history, as it aims to shed light on what was actually said in these ancient trials. To accomplish that goal, it also draws on classical rhetorical theory and Roman law. By systematically considering a large number of trials, the book offers a corrective to the dominance of Ciceronian defense speeches in the study of ancient Roman criminal trials."--Jacket.

Transantiquity

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Author : Domitilla Campanile
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-03

Transantiquity written by Domitilla Campanile and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-03 with History categories.

TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of the societies of the time, the impact transgender practices had on individuals’ symbolic and social capital, as well as the reactions of institutionalized power and the juridical systems. The variety of subjects and approaches demonstrates just how complex and widespread "transgender dynamics" were in antiquity.