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Brave Cloelia: Retold from the Account in The History of Early Rome by the Roman Historian Titus Livius
32 pp.
| Getty |
September, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-89236-763-6$16.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Jeff Crosby.
This story, based on an ancient account by Livy, tells of a young Roman girl who, held captive by the Etruscans, leads forty girls to escape and later devises a plan to free an equal number of boys. Though courageous and quick-thinking, Cloelia remains a rather remote figure in a concisely written text that's accompanied by somewhat static illustrations.