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This article is about women in ancient Rome. For the hummingbird genus, see Lesbia (bird).
Lesbia was a common Latin name in Ancient Rome The most famous example is the lover to whom the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54BC) dedicates a number of poems. Nothing is known about her other than what can be deduced from Catullus's poems. The name itself suggests literary and erotic connotations, evoking as it does the Lesbos Island, where the famed poet Sappho lived. According to Apuleius, a much later author from Africa, 'Lesbia' was actually a fake name invented by Catullus, a common practice. Lesbia is the subject of 25 of his 116 surviving poems, and these display a wide range of emotions, ranging from tender love (eg, Catullus 5), to sadness and disappointment, and to bitter sarcasm, following the often unsteady course of Catullus' relationship.
Lesbia is traditionally identified with the infamous Clodia, prosecuted by Cicero in Pro Caelio, although this conclusion lacks direct evidence, and there is some disagreement in a minority of scholars. A recent article by the Roman historian Suzanne Dixon in Reading Roman Women mounts a strong argument against not only the Lesbia/Clodia identification but also against the notion that 'Lesbia' refers to a historical woman at all.
Lesbia was a common Latin name in Ancient Rome The most famous example is the lover to whom the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54BC) dedicates a number of poems. Nothing is known about her other than what can be deduced from Catullus's poems. The name itself suggests literary and erotic connotations, evoking as it does the Lesbos Island, where the famed poet Sappho lived. According to Apuleius, a much later author from Africa, 'Lesbia' was actually a fake name invented by Catullus, a common practice. Lesbia is the subject of 25 of his 116 surviving poems, and these display a wide range of emotions, ranging from tender love (eg, Catullus 5), to sadness and disappointment, and to bitter sarcasm, following the often unsteady course of Catullus' relationship.
Lesbia is traditionally identified with the infamous Clodia, prosecuted by Cicero in Pro Caelio, although this conclusion lacks direct evidence, and there is some disagreement in a minority of scholars. A recent article by the Roman historian Suzanne Dixon in Reading Roman Women mounts a strong argument against not only the Lesbia/Clodia identification but also against the notion that 'Lesbia' refers to a historical woman at all.
References
Oxford Latin Reader, Maurice Balme and James Morewood (1997) Lesbia
Lesson, 1833
species
L. victoriae
L. nuna
Lesbia is a small genus of hummingbird. Its two members are found in tropical South America.
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Lesson, 1833
species
L. victoriae
L. nuna
Lesbia is a small genus of hummingbird. Its two members are found in tropical South America.
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Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea.
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A poet is a person who writes poetry. This is usually influenced by a cultural and intellectual tradition. Some consider the best poetry to be, to some extent, and universal, and to address issues common to all humanity; others are more absorbed by its particular, personal and
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Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His work remains widely studied, and continues to influence poetry and other art.
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Lesbos
Λέσβο?
Olympos peak rises 968 meters over Lesbos
Geography
Island Chain: North Aegean
Total Isles: 16
Area:[1] 1,632.819 km (0 sq.mi.
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Λέσβο?
Olympos peak rises 968 meters over Lesbos
Geography
Island Chain: North Aegean
Total Isles: 16
Area:[1] 1,632.819 km (0 sq.mi.
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Sappho (Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω
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Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. AD 123/125-c. AD 180), an utterly Romanized Berber who described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian", is remembered most for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass
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Catullus 5 is a passionate and perhaps the most famous poem by Catullus. The poem encourages lovers to scorn the snide comments of others, and to live only for each other, since life is all too brief and death brings on a night of perpetual sleep.
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Clodia, (born Claudia Pulchra Tercia ca. 95 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus")), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero around age 60, from an ancient marble bust
Born: January 3, 106 BC
Arpinum, Italy
Died: December 7, 43 BC
Formia, Italy
Occupation: Politician, lawyer, orator and philosopher
Nationality: Ancient Roman
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Cicero around age 60, from an ancient marble bust
Born: January 3, 106 BC
Arpinum, Italy
Died: December 7, 43 BC
Formia, Italy
Occupation: Politician, lawyer, orator and philosopher
Nationality: Ancient Roman
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Pro Caelio is one of the most famous surviving speeches by the Roman orator, Cicero. It is Cicero's defence, delivered on April 4, 56 BC, of Marcus Caelius Rufus on a number of obscure charges, including sedition, theft, the murder of the Alexandrian diplomat Dio, and the
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