A report on Catullus
Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes.
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Virgil
5 linksAncient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
From Virgil's admiring references to the neoteric writers Pollio and Cinna, it has been inferred that he was, for a time, associated with Catullus' neoteric circle.
Helvius Cinna
3 linksGaius Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) was an influential neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic, a little older than the generation of Catullus and Calvus.
Ovid
3 linksRoman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
They also play with generic conventions; most of the letters seem to refer to works in which these characters were significant, such as the Aeneid in the case of Dido and Catullus 64 for Ariadne, and transfer characters from the genres of epic and tragedy to the elegiac genre of the Heroides.
Poetry of Catullus
2 linksThe poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus was written towards the end of the Roman Republic.
Sapphic stanza
4 linksAeolic verse form of four lines.
Aeolic verse form of four lines.
A few centuries later, the Roman poet Catullus admired Sappho's work and used the Sapphic stanza in two poems: Catullus 11 (commemorating the end of his affair with Clodia) and Catullus 51 (marking its beginning).
Catulli Carmina
3 linksCantata by Carl Orff dating from 1940–1943.
Cantata by Carl Orff dating from 1940–1943.
The work mostly sets poems of the Latin poet Catullus to music, with some text by the composer.
Sappho
4 linksArchaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
In the first century BC, Catullus established the themes and metres of Sappho's poetry as a part of Latin literature, adopting the Sapphic stanza, believed in antiquity to have been invented by Sappho, giving his lover in his poetry the name "Lesbia" in reference to Sappho, and adapting and translating Sappho's 31st fragment in his poem 51.
Neoteric
2 linksThe Neoterikoi (Greek νεωτερικοί "new poets") or Neoterics were a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC. Neoteric poets deliberately turned away from classical Homeric epic poetry.
The Neoterikoi (Greek νεωτερικοί "new poets") or Neoterics were a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC. Neoteric poets deliberately turned away from classical Homeric epic poetry.
The most significant surviving Neoteric works are those of Catullus.