Talk:Lesbia

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I do need to look about for sources, but if my memory serves, I've seen the name Lesbia referenced as having a connotation of an educated or cultered woman (given the reputation of Lesbos) more than than a sapphic connotation. At least when taken in the original context.

Hm, how should this be categorized? There's a category for people known by psuedonyms, but there is some debate as to if there was a 'real' Lesbia. Perhaps, then, categorizing the articular in relation to Catulllus' work might be better such as to avoid this question? Bitnine 21:09, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

For the moment, I've removed the biography tag from the stub, as I don't think there really can be a biographical article about Lesbia. The article can really only reference the information given by Catullus (and, of course, secondary sources thereof). The question of if Lesbia refers to a real person aside, Clodia could certainly have a biography about her, with the articles referencing each other, but I don't think enough material exists on this subject to warrant classification as a biography. My trusty ol' textbooks are currently not accessable to me, but if/when I do get my hands on them, I'll probably be looking to flesh out the article. Bitnine 20:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you are being overly strict about the use of the tag. The goal of marking it as a stub is to indicate that more information is required and to attract people with experience with articles about people to work on the article. I will re-apply the tag. If that's all the information about the "person," then let's remove both stub tags, we can't do much more with the article. (John User:Jwy talk) 22:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC)