A report on Catullus 11, Sapphic stanza and Catullus

Alcaeus and Sappho, the two great poets of Lesbos. Attic red-figure calathus, c. 470 BCE
Modern bust of Catullus on the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione.
A papyrus manuscript preserving Sappho's "Fragment 5", a poem written in Sapphic stanzas
Catullus at Lesbia's by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Algernon Charles Swinburne, around the time he published "Sapphics"
Bithynia within the Roman Empire
Catullus et in eum commentarius (1554)
Lesbia, 1878 painting by John Reinhard Weguelin inspired by the poems of Catullus

Catullus 11 is a poem by Catullus.

- Catullus 11

Poem 11 is one of the two poems that Catullus writes in the Sapphic meter.

- Catullus 11

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).

- Sapphic stanza

Catullus twice used a meter that Sappho was known for, called the Sapphic stanza, in poems 11 and 51, perhaps prompting his successor Horace's interest in the form.

- Catullus
Alcaeus and Sappho, the two great poets of Lesbos. Attic red-figure calathus, c. 470 BCE

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