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I, Clodia, and Other Portraits.
"I, Clodia" is the story of Clodia Metelli-poet and lover-and her relations with her far-away paramour Catullus, her husband Metellus Celer, her brother Publius Clodius, and her accuser Cicero. By giving Clodia-the ""Lesbia"" of Catullus's famous love poetry-her ow...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Auckland :
Auckland University Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "I, Clodia" is the story of Clodia Metelli-poet and lover-and her relations with her far-away paramour Catullus, her husband Metellus Celer, her brother Publius Clodius, and her accuser Cicero. By giving Clodia-the ""Lesbia"" of Catullus's famous love poetry-her own first-person narration, Anna Jackson upends and reinvigorates the beloved classical sequence with biting wit and tender attention. Who was Clodia and what did she think about the affair, the gossip, the scandal, the poems? Jackson honors and subverts her source material in lines that are a marvel of ventriloquism. The book's second |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (76 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781775587613 1775587614 |