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Clodia Metelli

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I write mostly historical, mostly gay fiction. I also write urban fantasy, involving vampires, which for me is an approach to historical fiction by other means as tracing the stories of immortals through the centuries presents the opportunity to visit and explore many time-periods.

Most of my historical fiction is set in the ancient Greco-Roman period, which I studied for many years and which remains a passion with me (reading Suetonius can have a terribly corrupting effect on a young mind...). I tend to offer an alternative, more internalised window on Greco-Roman society, the emotional and cultural lives of courtesans and poets rather than the deeds of gladiators and victorious generals. An elegiac rather than epic perspective.


I'm still going to be around here, but I'm creating an alternative home on LibraryThing.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 11 ratings · 6 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
Gaius and Achilles
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions

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The Gift (Gay & Lesbian)
1 chapters   —   updated Apr 07, 2012 02:47pm
Description: Sean wants to give his boyfriend a Valentine's Day to remember. The only problem is, vampires don't eat chocolate...
Meeting Tiberius (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 13, 2012 03:51pm
Description: At a dull dinner party, in Late Republican Rome, two men meet who discover they hold an unexpected amount in common...

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“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true. Real becomes Not-Real when the Unreal's Real.”
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“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
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Arundhati Roy
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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Clodia Metelli Steelwhisper wrote: "Thanks for accepting the friending ;)"
Thanks for friending - always good to meet dabblers in the dark, weird and sadistic :)


Steelwhisper Thanks for accepting the friending ;)


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