Agnieszka Dziuba, Clodia Metelli. A Literary Portrayal of a Patrician Woman, Lublin 2016, pp. 320 [Review]

Authors

  • Damian Pierzak Département Lettres et Arts, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 15 parvis René Descartes, BP 7000 69342 Lyon Cedex 07 (France), UMR 5317 – l’IHRIM – Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.20.13

Keywords:

Clodia Metelli, Cicero, Catullus, biography, invective

Abstract

The recent book by Agnieszka Dziuba will be appreciated by both the ancient historians and the classical scholars in Poland for, as a monograph of a Roman woman, it has no antecedent. The study concerns Clodia’s background (“Clodia in historiography”), her portrayal by Cicero in the speech In Defense of M. Caelius Rufus, and her depiction in Catullus’ poetry. In the latter case, the author had to assume that in some of the poems Lesbia can be identified with Clodia Metelli. Despite some minor misrepresentations and misprints, the book is a sound analysis of the literary texts featuring the eponymous character. In addition, it offers a lively picture of the role women played in the Roman aristocratic society.

Author Biography

Damian Pierzak, Département Lettres et Arts, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 15 parvis René Descartes, BP 7000 69342 Lyon Cedex 07 (France), UMR 5317 – l’IHRIM – Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités.

Ph.D. student in Linguistics and Teaching Assistant at ENS de Lyon. BA in Romance Philology (2013), MA in French Linguistics (2015). Diplôme d’université (2017) – two year diploma program – at Strasbourg University in Ancient Languages, specialising in Medieval Latin.

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Published

2017-12-30

How to Cite

Pierzak, D. (2017). Agnieszka Dziuba, Clodia Metelli. A Literary Portrayal of a Patrician Woman, Lublin 2016, pp. 320 [Review]. Collectanea Philologica, (20), 175–184. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.20.13

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