#clodia

[enlitment]

Which Underrated Woman from History are You?

Finally got around to making a uquiz featuring six of my favourite women from history! You can either get someone from the French Revolution, Roman Republic (I know, how unexpected!) or from 1700s/early 1800s.

Featuring scientists, writers, politically active icons and a few poets whose lives were intertwined with theirs, as a treat!

Enjoy and thanks everyone for sharing! ✨

[suburbanbeatnik]

Cicero/Clodia sketches over the years

Why, you ask? Why not, I reply

[persephonesflowershop]

charles and camilla / clodius and clodia

[helenasrealm]

"odi et amo quare id faciam, fortasse requiris nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior"

Catullus, carmen 85

"I hate and I love, why I do this, you ask perhaps. I am not sure, but I feel it happening and I suffer because of it."

[mus-urbanus]

going insane

[enlitment]

La Mélancholie, Etienne Maurice Falconet, 1774, Louvre, Paris.

(in my heart of hearts, this is a statue of Lesbia/Clodia Metelli with her sparrow)

[catominor]

roman matrona dressing up her twink boytoys in her clothes

[catilinas]

Anna Jackson, I, Clodia

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Cheering.

[Vassiliki Panoussi, From Adultery to Incest: Messalina and Agrippina as Sexual Aggressors in Tacitus’ Annals]

[helenasrealm]

"Ille mi par esse deo videtur, ille si fas est, superare divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit."

Catullus, carmen 51: ad Lesbiam

"He seems a god to me, he seems to, if it is permitted, surpass the gods, he, constantly sitting across you, who looks at you and listens to you."

The ressemblance between this poem and Sappho 31 is incredible. A sign that Catullus did read Sappho's poems and that she was still an important author for the Romans (even if she was a woman).

[p-clodius-pulcher]

[enlitment]

Look at his posture! His body rotated towards her, his knee and elbow facing in her direction? Brainwashing in action! 😤

[classicslesbianopinions]

ANCIENT WOMAN THUNDERDOME 2023: Official Bracket!!

[image description: a bracket titled Ancient Woman Thunderdome 2023. it lists 32 matchups between 64 women. all matchups are listed below. end image description.]

we have our final matches! clytemnestra, medea, antigone, and penelope are our most suggested, with honorable mentions to electra, circe, helen, and atalanta. i've seeded according to how many times each one was suggested, with more popular candidates going against less popular in the first round. HOWEVER, this is not a popularity contest! this is WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT. please vote accordingly, with consideration of physical strength, mental acuity, and magical ability.

the first round matches are as follows (note: where people suggested a group, ie. maenads, sirens, i'm acting as if one representative from that group is in the fight):

Clytemnestra vs. Niobe Electra vs. Iphis Chrysothemis vs. Cassiopeia Iphigenia vs. Semele Procne vs. Creusa Callisto vs. Europa Daphne vs. Lysistrata Philomela vs. Andromeda

Penelope vs. Antiope Atalanta vs. Stheno Dido vs. Lavinia Penthesilea vs. Nausicaä Camilla vs. Anna Briseis vs. Lesbia Agave vs. Chryseis Phaedra vs. Charybdis

Antigone vs. one of Hephaestus' "golden fembots" Helen vs. Deianeira Ariadne vs. Eurydice (from Antigone) Hecuba vs. Iambe Andromache vs. Echo Eurydice (Orpheus' love) vs. Psyche Ismene vs. Tiresias Jocasta vs. Scylla

Medea vs. a siren Circe vs. Cressida Cassandra vs. Leda Medusa vs. a maenad Hippolyta vs. Galatea Arachne vs. Pasiphae Pandora vs. Danae Io vs. Calypso

i'm hoping to start the matches next week. the first round will be four polls a day for eight days; polls will last for one day until we get to round four with eight competitors/four matchups (at which point the polls will last a week).

[girlcaelius]

you could make a toxic foursome out of this..

[suburbanbeatnik]

I have a bunch of favorite Roman/Byzantine couples, ranging from Factual to Probable to Crackship. Which do you like best? (There’s no other option. You Must Choose)

[catoswound]

hit 95 followers a while ago. cato minor was born in 95. i cant believe we're soulmates