Clodia: A Sourcebook

289 Pages·2014·1.926 MB·English

by  Julia Dyson Hejduk

C L O D I A
A S O U RC E B O O K
J U LI A DYS ON H EJ DU K
Clodia
OKLAHOMASERIESINCLASSICALCULTURE
OKLAHOMA SERIES IN CLASSICAL CULTURE
Series Editor
Ellen Greene, University of Oklahoma
ADVISORY BOARD
Susan Guettel Cole, State University of New York,Buffalo
Carolyn J. Dewald, Bard College
Thomas M. Falkner, The College of Wooster
Elaine Fantham, Princeton University
Nancy Felson, University of Georgia
Helene P. Foley, Barnard College
Sara Mack, University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill
Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy Cross
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
Jon Solomon, University of Arizona
Richard F. Thomas, Harvard University
Clodia
ASourcebook
Julia Dyson Hejduk
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS: NORMAN
ALSO BY JULIA DYSON HEJDUK
King of the Wood:The Sacrificial Victor in Virgil’sAeneid (Norman, 2001)
Hejduk, Julia Dyson, 1966–
Clodia : a sourcebook / Julia Dyson Hejduk.
p. cm. — (Oklahoma series in classical culture)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8061-3907-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Clodia, 94–53 B.C.—Relations with
men. 2. Clodia, 94–53 B.C.—In literature. 3. Women—Rome—Biography. 4. Cicero,
Marcus Tullius—Criticism and interpretation. 5. Catullus, Gaius Valerius—Criticism and
interpretation. 6. Love poetry, Latin—History and criticism. 7. Rome—In literature.
I. Title.
DG260.C6H45 2008
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Clodia:A Sourcebookis Volume 33 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture.
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For my husband

Contents
Preface xiii
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 3
Who Was Clodia? 3
Love after Lesbia 9
Themes in Roman Love Poetry 12
love as slavery 13
love as war 13
love as military service 13
love as disease 13
love as foedus 14
love as amicitia 14
Some Translation Issues 15
candidus 16
carmen 16
cura 17
deliciae 17
miser 17
pietas/pius 17
venustus 17
Roman Civilization 17
Women 18
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Social Classes 19
Slavery 19
Patrons and Clients 20
Patricians and Plebeians 20
Names 21
Political Offices 21
Patria Potestas 22
The Circulation of Books 22
Textual Criticism 23
PARTI. CLODIA
Cicero
Introduction 27
Why Read Cicero’s Letters? 27
Historical Background 29
Letters 31
Fam.5.1 31
Fam.5.2 32
Att.2.1 36
Att.2.9 42
Att.2.12 45
Att.2.14 46
Att.2.22 47
Att.2.23 49
Q. fr.2.3 50
Att.12.38a 54
Att.12.42 55
Att.12.41 55
Att.12.43 56
Att.12.44 57
Att.13.26 58
Att.12.47 58
Att.12.52 59
Att.13.29 60
Att.14.8 61
CONTENTS ix
Speeches (Excerpts) 63
Dom.25 63
Dom.26 63
Dom.92 64
Har.9 64
Har.38 64
Har.39 64
Har.42 64
Har.59 64
Sest.16 64
Sest.39 64
Sest.116 65
Pro Caelio 66
Catullus 107
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