
Episode CII - Clodia
Emperors of Rome
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Catalonian Poems
A theory that a lot of classicists hold, that she is also the person in a lot of the poems of catullus. In these poems, he doesn't use the name clodia. There are some clues that it might be her. For example, he talks about a character called polcare, and this character is called lesbius. So that may be a reference to these two being aligned and being the same person. Yet it comes over as a real love hate relationship.
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