Aemilia Clara was a Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century. She and her family originally came from the colony of Hadrumetum, Africa (modern Sousse, Tunisia, North Africa).

She was most probably the namesake of her mother. Her paternal grandfather was Marcus Salvius Julianus, who was of the gens Salvius (the same gens that Roman emperor Otho belongs to). Julianus was a prominent jurist who served under emperor Hadrian (reigned 117–136). As a jurist, he compiled the Edictum Perpetuum, a collection of praetor’s statement of the principles to be used in administering justice. Another compilation was Digesta, 90 books cited in Byzantine Emperor Justinian I’s Digest. He was twice consul and prefect of Rome. Her father of the same name also served as a jurist. Her brother of the same name was betrothed to a daughter of jurist Taruntenus Paternus.

She married Quintus Petronius Didius Severus, a Roman who came from a prominent family in Milan, Italy. Their sons were:

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Clara is the main character in the French Novel The Torture Garden ((French) Le Jardin des supplices, 1899), by Octave Mirbeau.

A free woman

Clara, who has no last name or civil status, is an English woman with red hair and green eyes--“a greyish green of the young fruits of the almond tree.” Single, rich and bisexual, Clara lives in near Canton, and leads an idle existence, entirely devoted to finding perverse pleasures. She is fully emancipated, financially and sexually, and freed from oppressive laws and taboos prevailing in the West and which, according to her critique of anarchist inspiration, prohibit the development of the individual. Clara thus claims to enjoy complete freedom. She particularly enjoys visiting the city prison every week, which is open to tourists on Wednesday. Clara delights in watching the death row inmates, many of whom are innocent or guilty of minor offenses, being brutally tortured and put to death.

This protagonist meets the anonymous narrator, a petty political crook, aboard the Saghalien, where the pseudo-embryologist was sailing to Ceylon, as part of an official mission. In reality, his primary goal is just to distance himself from France. She seduces him, awakening his sexual desire along with the need to unburden himself, and becomes his mistress. She takes him with her to China, where both the narrator and Clara share a lover, Annie.

Clara is a German television series.

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