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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Epithalamium
0 linksPoem written specifically for the bride on the way to her marital chamber.
Poem written specifically for the bride on the way to her marital chamber.
This form continued in popularity through the history of the classical world; the Roman poet Catullus wrote a famous epithalamium, which was translated from or at least inspired by a now-lost work of Sappho.
T. P. Wiseman
1 linksNamed as Peter Wiseman in other sources, is a classical scholar and professor emeritus of the University of Exeter.
Named as Peter Wiseman in other sources, is a classical scholar and professor emeritus of the University of Exeter.
Catullan Questions (1969).
Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus
0 linksOrator and poet of ancient Rome.
Orator and poet of ancient Rome.
Son of Licinius Macer and thus a member of the gens Licinia, he was a friend of the poet Catullus, whose style and subject matter he shared.
Epigram
0 linksBrief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.
Brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.
Authors whose epigrams survive include Catullus, who wrote both invectives and love epigrams – his poem 85 is one of the latter.
Catullus 68
0 linksPoem 68 is a complex elegy written by Catullus who lived in the 1st century BCE during the time of the Roman Republic.
Lost literary work
0 linksDocument, literary work, or piece of multimedia produced some time in the past, of which no surviving copies are known to exist.
Document, literary work, or piece of multimedia produced some time in the past, of which no surviving copies are known to exist.
Lost poems of Sappho. Only a few full poems and fragments of others survive. It has been hypothesized that poems 61 and 62 of Catullus were inspired by lost works of Sappho.
Lesbia (play)
0 linksOne-act play written by Richard Davey.
One-act play written by Richard Davey.
The story is a comedy about the relationship between the Roman poet Catullus and his lover Lesbia.
Tom Holland (author)
0 linksEnglish author who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history and the origins of Islam.
English author who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history and the origins of Islam.
In Attis (1996), he took historical figures from the ancient Roman Republic like Pompey and the poet Catullus and put them in a modern setting among a string of brutal murders.
Catullus 13
0 linksCenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me is the first line, sometimes used as a title, of Carmen 13 from the collected poems of the 1st-century BC Latin poet Catullus.