Kdo chodil s Catulle?

Catulle (en latin Caius Valerius Catullus) est un poète romain. Selon Suétone, il serait né à Vérone en Gaule cisalpine ou peut-être à Sirmio (actuelle Sirmione), ville située au bord du lac Benacus (actuel lac de Garde), en 84 av. J.-C. Il meurt aux alentours de 54 av. J.-C. à Rome, où il a passé la plus grande partie de sa vie.

Lesbie (latinsky: Lesbia) je literární pseudonym, který použil římský neóterický básník Gaius Valerius Catullus k označení své milenky. Lesbie je předmětem série jeho básní, v nichž je možno spatřit širokou škálu emocí od lásky, přes zklamání až k hořké nenávisti. Postava Catullovy Lesbie inspirovala řadu umělců.

Clodia (born Claudia; c. 94/95 BC), nicknamed Quadrantaria ("Quarter", from quadrantarius, the price of a visit to the public baths), Nola ("The Unwilling", from the verb nolo, in sarcastic reference to her alleged wantonness), Medea Palatina ("Medea of the Palatine") by Cicero (see below), and occasionally referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Metellus's Clodia"), was one of three known daughters of the ancient Roman patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher.

Like many other women of the Roman elite, Clodia was very well-educated in Greek and philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry. 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.