Claudia Metrodora

Claudia Metrodora (fl. ca. 54 - 68 AD) was a Graeco-Roman public benefactor. A resident of the island of Kios, Metrodora was the daughter of Claudius Kalobrotos of Teos, and the adopted daughter of Skytheinos of Kios.

Details saved from a fragmentary inscription from Ephesus reveal that Claudia Metrodora paid from her own finances to provide public meals, erected public baths, held the honorary rank of gymnasiarch on four separate occasions, provided supplies of live oil teice for public consumption, and was honoured as a basileia^{[disambiguation needed ]} of the Ionian League.

Source

• R van Bremen, The Limits of Participation (1996)
• Kearsley, Roy, "Women in Public Life in the Roman East: Iunia Theodora, Claudia Metrodora and Phoebe, Benefactress of Paul," Tyndale Bulletin 50/2 (1999), p. 189 - 211.

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