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Santoro L'hoir, 'The Adulteress-Poisoner in Cicero and Tacitus' in Dickison & Hallett (2000) inĭramatically pretends not to interrogate Clodia himself, but instead calls upįrom the dead her famous ancestor, Appius Claudius Caecus, a stern moralist and Skinner's article (1983) for the stereotype of Clodia as poisoner, see F. Jurors' prejudices and win Caelius's acquittal, is evidenced by the veryĭifferent Clodia he describes in his letters: see M. After 56 BCE Clodia disappearedĬicero paints of Clodia in this speech is a caricature, calculated to appeal to Notorious for conduct that compromised the family name. Lesbia) or were influenced by it (as Augustus' daughter Julia may have been byĬaelio (April 3-4, 56 BCE), Clodia's distinguishedĪncestor Appius Claudius Caecus reprimands her forīeing an unmarried widow in her 30's, living alone without male supervision and Imperious beloved of elegiac love poetry (as Clodia is claimed to be Catullus' Scholars question whether historic women created the template of the Metellus Celer (consul 60 BCE) after his suspicious death in 59 she never Clodia married her cousin, Quintus Caecilius The public eye, they are portrayed in contemporary prose texts as negativeĮxempla for their rejection of the confining role of the Late Republic (notably Sempronia, Fulvia, Julia) educated, wealthy, freely in

She is numbered among the elite 'new' women of the Sisters, all Clodias, born into the powerful and influentialĬlaudia, identified by the addition of their husband's name (see

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