Cloelia

Cloelia is a legendary female figure from the early Roman history.

According to Livy to have been sent on a peace treaty between the Romans and the Etruscan king Lars Porsena in the year 508 BC Cloelia with other young women hostage in the camp of the Etruscans. You should, however, escaped by swimming with other hostages by the Tiber, to return to Rome. Porsena did it first reclaimed and threatened otherwise to look at the freshly concluded a peace treaty as invalid. But then Cloelias valor had so impressed him that he had the Romans, in turn, promised immediate return in the event of their delivery. They had been sent subsequently by the Romans to Porsena, who kept his promise, they treated honorably and gave her even more allowed to take more hostages in return. For their heroism Cloelia was honored with an equestrian statue on the Via Sacra, which was already out of sight to Livy's own lifetime but.

The whole story is now regarded as an attempt to explain this only female equestrian statue in Rome. In iconography, placing them often as a girl on horseback before Porsena dar.

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• Livy Ab urbe condita 2,13,6-11
• Florus de Tito Livio Epitoma 1,4,7
• Valerius Maximus Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium 3,2,2