A report on Catullus and Neoteric

Modern bust of Catullus on the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione.

Catullus at Lesbia's by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Bithynia within the Roman Empire

Catullus et in eum commentarius (1554)

Lesbia, 1878 painting by John Reinhard Weguelin inspired by the poems of Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84), often referred to simply as Catullus, was a 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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The most significant surviving Neoteric works are those of Catullus.

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Modern bust of Catullus on the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione.

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Helvius Cinna

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Gaius 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.

Bust of Virgil at the entrance to his crypt in Naples

Virgil

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Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

Bust of Virgil at the entrance to his crypt in Naples

Bust of Virgil at the entrance to his crypt in Naples

Page from the beginning of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus

Horace, Virgil and Varius at the house of Maecenas, by Charles Jalabert.

Late 17th-century illustration of a passage from the Georgics, by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter.

A 1st-century terracotta expressing the pietas of Aeneas, who carries his aged father and leads his young son

Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia by Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Art Institute of Chicago

A 3rd-century Roman mosaic of Virgil seated between Clio and Melpomene (from Hadrumetum [Sousse], Tunisia)

A 5th-century portrait of Virgil from the Vergilius Romanus

Virgil in His Basket, Lucas van Leyden, 1525

The verse inscription at Virgil's tomb was supposedly composed by the poet himself: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. ("Mantua gave me life, the Calabrians took it away, Naples holds me now; I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders" [transl. Bernard Knox])

Tomb of Virgil in Naples, Italy

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.