Clodia or Claudia (born 95 or 94 BC) was the wife of the Roman senator Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, 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 love poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, whom she had an affair with. Catullus gave her the alias "Lesbia" in his poetry, a name he derived from the island of Lesbos where his favorite poet, Sappho lived in the sixth and seventh centuries BCE.