Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister

by Marilyn B. Skinner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195375017
• ISBN13: 9780195375015
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"