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Historical person

Clodia

born 96 BCE

Clodia was a Roman aristocrat of the late Republic, often identified with the Lesbia of Catullus’s poetry. She belonged to the powerful Claudian family and appears in hostile legal and literary sources as a figure of scandal, influence and elite social conflict.

In Steven Saylor’s The Venus Throw, Clodia hires the Finder to investigate, drawing him into a case involving Egyptian agents and Rome’s most notorious aristocratic circle. Steven Saylor’s A Mist of Prophecies places Clodia within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government and crime, espionage and covert power.

Historical context

Historical periods linked to Clodia

Late Roman Republic 133–27 BCE

Series

Series featuring Clodia (1 series)

Roma Sub Rosa in Order

by Steven Saylor 13 books 4.1

The Roma Sub Rosa series follows Gordianus the Finder through the last generation of the Roman Republic. His investigations begin in the aftermath of Sulla’s dictatorship and continue through slave revolt, aristocratic trials, Catiline’s conspiracy, Caesar’s civil war and the assassination of Julius Caesar. The series uses murder…

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