Catullus
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Gaius Valerius Catullus, known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their
20th-century bust of Catullus on the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione
Catullus at Lesbia's by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lesbia, 1878 painting by John Reinhard Weguelin inspired by the poems of Catullus
Catullus et in eum commentarius (1554)
Clodia (wife of Metellus)
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Clodia, nicknamed Quadrantaria, Nola, Medea Palatina by Cicero, and occasionally referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli, was one of three known daughters of the ancient Roman patrician Appius Cl
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…his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day. The "Lesbia" of his poems is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri, sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher, and wife to…
Clodia from the Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
Lesbia and her Sparrow by Sir Edward John Poynter