Clodia Metelli - The Tribune's Sister

Zusatztext This book ... is highly readable for its comments on the social and political history of the time, as well as an insight into the literary works of Catullus and Cicero. As a commentary on a key Republican family, it works as an in-depth case study of Late Republican life. Informationen zum Autor Marilyn Skinner is Professor of Classics, University of Arizona Klappentext Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as portrayed by contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. This study, by examining the way in which she was represented, sheds light on the role played by major female figures in Roman literature. Zusammenfassung Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as portrayed by contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. This study, by examining the way in which she was represented, sheds light on the role played by major female figures in Roman literature.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn B. Skinner, Skinner Marilyn B.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2011
• EAN: 9780195375008
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537500-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Women in Antiquity
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory