Gay For Clodia

She/her. In love with Clodia Metelli. Populares are the best. Latin poetry. Julius Caesar.

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Oh yeah happy pride month people. (Sorry it’s a couple days late I’ve been drowning in exams). Ecce, a lesbian flag version of Lesbia.

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Am I actually starting to enjoy Tacitus?

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I kind of want to actually read some more of his stuff. I can’t believe it.

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Am I actually starting to enjoy Tacitus?

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Just found out that Ancient Rome had a genre of literature that just focused on idealised suicide, noble deaths and martyrdom. Can’t say I’m surprised.

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Supposedly, a lot of women I know are really into the Roman Republic. They won't stop talking about "Caesaring" or something

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I refuse to believe that the Romans read Tacitus normally.

[theamazingmurderrocks]

let's all ship fulvia with literally every woman in ancient rome

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And if you think about it, Cato and Cleopatra were the same because they both killed themselves instead of facing the humiliation of clementia from a Caesar

[shranstan]

Reading any historical fiction and non-fiction set in I century B.C.E. and Cicero my friend Cicero is always there <3 #mycicero

[erlkingirl]

we all have that 1 mutual who’s been consul like 7 times

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@aborted-your-virtus

[sybilofcumae]

I’m going to go for an 8th consulship once I return from Gaul because someone wouldn’t allow me to run in absentia.

[sybilofcumae]

Damn it I used the wrong account

[qsycomplainsalot]

Pessimist: the glass is half empty Optimist: the glass is half full Optimates: therefore Carthage must be destroyed

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I love how Latin has a specific word for cleavage.

[charl0ttan]

nobody is named flavia or sextus any more

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@aborted-your-virtus also I am afraid of Sextus Pompey :/

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I’m afraid of anyone named Sextus, Roman history or otherwise.

[swallowtail-ageha]

I liek how cicero describes (either in the pro caelio or a letter to atticus i cant remember to save my life) clodia as cow eyed in a derogatory way meanwhile the first thing that comes to mind when thinking abt a cows eyes is big gorgeous brown/black wet with long lashes

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Pullo x Vorenus. Enemies to lovers in the span of 16 lines of Latin prose.

[gridmaster5000-deactivated20241]

you disagreed w me in an intellectually honest way. we're friends now.

[pregnant-with-virtus]

@aborted-your-virtus you.

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7] And finally, when Pompey appeared at a public trial, Clodius, having at his beck and call a rabble of the lewdest and most arrogant ruffians, stationed himself in a conspicuous place and put to them such questions as these: “Who is a licentious imperator?” “What man seeks for a man?” “Who scratches his head with one finger?” And they, like a chorus trained in responsive song, as he shook his toga, would answer each question by shouting out “Pompey.”

- Plutarch, Life of Pompey 48.7. Trans: Bernadotte Perrin

Clodius is such an icon for this.