#clodia

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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! ✨

[hortensius]

Clodia

Catullus || Caelius

[suburbanbeatnik]

Cicero/Clodia sketches over the years

Why, you ask? Why not, I reply

[whiskeysorrows]

all hozier songs are about catullus and clodia if you try hard enough

[catos-wound]

CLODIA AND CATO SAME YEAR OF BIRTH...?!????

[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

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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]

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

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Big thank you to everyone who took my silly little uquiz! <3 And a special shout out to those who got Clodia aka Medea Palatina aka (most likely) Lesbia, which is apparently the rarest result