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For other people with similar names, see Claudia Pulchra.
Clodia (born Claudia, c. 95 or 94 BC),[1] nicknamed Quadrantaria, and occasionally referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli[2][3][4] ("Metellus's Clodia"),[lower-roman 1] was one of three known daughters of the ancient Roman patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher.
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Like many other women of the Roman elite, Clodia was very well educated in Greek and Philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry.[2] Her life, which was characterized by perpetual scandal, is immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus.[5]