Clodia (wife of Metellus)
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Clodia, (born Claudia Pulchra Tercia ca. 95 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica.
She is not to be confused with her niece, Clodia Pulchra, who was briefly married to Octavian.
Despite being a woman, Clodia was very well educated in Greek and Philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry. Her life, immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and also, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, was characterized by perpetual scandal.
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Clodia in popular culture
- Clodia makes several appearances in the Roma Sub Rosa series of historical mystery novels by the American author Steven Saylor.
- Clodia also plays a significant role in several books of the SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts.
- Clodia plays a role in the Ides of March, an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder covering the events leading to the assassination of Julius Caesar. The author describes Clodia's relationship with Catullus and suggests that Clodia's scandalous lifestyle is inspired by anger at the perceived hypocrisy of her upbringing and by being abused as a child.
- Historical Consultant Jonathan Stamp [1] of the HBO/BBC series Rome identifies Clodia as the primary basis for the character of Atia of the Julii. Little detail is known of the historical Atia Balba Caesonia.
- Characters of Dante's Inferno
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