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Clodia

(klō`dĕə), fl. 1st cent. B.C., Roman matron, famous among the ancient Romans for her beauty; sister of Publius ClodiusClodius
(Publius Clodius Pulcher) , d. 52 B.C., Roman politician. He belonged to the Claudian gens (see Claudius), and his name is also written as Publius Claudius Pulcher. He was brother to Appius Claudius Pulcher and to the notorious Clodia. In 62 B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. . She was suspected of murdering her husband, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (see MetellusMetellus
, ancient Roman family of the plebeian gens Caecilia. Lucius Caecilius Metellus, d. c.221 B.C., consul (251 B.C.), fought in the First Punic War. He was pontifex maximus (from 243) and was said to have been blinded (241) in rescuing the Palladium from the burning
..... Click the link for more information. , family), and she accused her lover, Marcus Caelius Rufus, of trying to murder her. According to tradition one of her many lovers was the poet CatullusCatullus
(Caius Valerius Catullus) , 84? B.C.–54? B.C., Roman poet, b. Verona. Of a well-to-do family, he went c.62 B.C. to Rome. He fell deeply in love, probably with Clodia, sister of Cicero's opponent Publius Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband.
..... Click the link for more information. ; if this is true then it was she whom he immortalized as Lesbia.

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Perrini, Francesco y Vurro, Clodia (2006), "Social Entrepreneurship: Innovation and Social Change across Theory and Practice", en Mair, Johanna, Robinson, Jeffrey y Hockerts Kai (eds.), Social Entrepreneurship, Palgrave Macmillan, Londres.

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No primeiro caso, Propercio inscreve Cintia como emulo de Sempronia (26), de Clodia (27), ou de Volumnia (28), ja que essas dominam a arte da musica, das letras e da danca, alem de serem paradigmaticas da vida cortesa (29).

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Cicero holds her up as a model of Republican virtue in order to shame her contemporary kinswoman, Clodia: nonne te, si nostrae imagines viriles non commovebant, ne progenies quidem mea, Q.

Constructing a New Woman for the Body Politic: The Creation of Claudia Quinta

(3.) Los ejemplos pueden venir tambien del lado literario, segun demuestran las mas que significativas palabras contenidas en la carta que Clodia Pulcher dirige a su amigo Catulo en Los Idus de Marzo, novela epistolar de Thornton Wilder publicada en 1948: "No has estado escribiendome a mi al escribirlas [tus cartas], sino a esa imagen que tienes alojada en la cabeza y a la cual no deseo parecerme" (135).

Algunas cartas entre Alejandro Casona y Felix Gordon Ordas. Meditaciones sobre los reflejos fragmentarios de dos vidas en el exilio

My Carmen, see, makes your Clodia seem blowsy, a diluted wine, a dull receptacle for perfumed, sheet-wrapped goatherds.

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School youth will always favor Catullus and his passionate affair with Clodia (Lesbia) and the violent emotional changes from hating to loving, but one grows up and Horace is the antidote, as the author discovered.

Harry Eyres, Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet

Even within the so-called 'personal' poetry some narrative strands were suppressed in the continual recuperation of the one story that has dominated the reception of Catullus: the story of Catullus' love for Lesbia (commonly reckoned to be a pseudonym for the historical woman Clodia Metelli).