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Catullus, Gaius Valerius
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius (
c.84–
c.54 bc), was one of the most versatile of Roman poets, writing love poems, elegies, and satirical epigrams. His work remained virtually unknown during the Middle Ages until a manuscript of his poems came to light at Verona in the 14th cent. He left his mark on
Campion's Bookes of Ayres, on
Jonson's songs, and generally on
Herrick and
Lovelace. Leigh
Hunt translated his
Attis (1810) and
Tennyson, visiting Sirmione where Catullus once had a house, wrote his pathetic ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’.
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Catullus, today and always.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Poems of Love and Hate, by Catullus, translated by Josephine Balmer; Bloodaxe, 2003, about $35. Chasing Catullus, by Josephine Balmer; Bloodaxe, 2004, about $35. Catullus for Children, by Anna Jackson; Auckland University Press...
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Reading Catullus, Thinking Differently.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Helios; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...eight years I have taught the poetry of Catullus to both graduate and undergraduate students...of teaching assistants who have used Catullus as an introduction to Latin literature...remarkably successful, and I now recommend Catullus as an initiatory text to all my colleagues...
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Catullus, C. 37, and the Theme of Magna Bella.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Helios; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...have tended to focus on the obscenity of Catullus' C. 37 for obvious reasons. This infamous...Amid the rude words and vivid imagery, Catullus has produced a poem with a distinctly...sharers/drinking-partners. (5) Catullus makes the most of his linguistic selections...
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"The starry heaven of popular girls": Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Catullus's Coma Berenices.(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and famously translated into Latin by Catullus (Poem 66; Quinn 62-64), the queen...Together with Caesar, Virgil, and Cicero, Catullus was often read in the traditional Latin...since 1893. The passionate verse of Catullus had perennial appeal, although the teaching...
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Among those Present: Catullus 44 and 10.
Magazine article from: Helios; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Did C. Valerius Catullus, like his contemporaries Archias and...critical tradition does not so much master Catullus' literary achievement as play out...examines the wider relationship of Catullus' acoustic poetics to both "referential...
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Catullus VIII.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 6/22/1999; ; 428 words
; ...Even while you play the clown, sad Catullus, you see what's lost. Now learn from...less--Now she loves you no longer, Catullus--you limp, brooding clod: quit snivelling...And so, dear girl, bonne chance-- Catullus is stiff, though he won't come uninvited...
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A Catullus Workbook.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 10/1/2007; 530 words
; A Catullus Workbook Helena Dettmer & LeaAnn...text for all the selections on the AP Catullus syllabus; short answer questions addressing...grammatical and syntactical structures of each Catullus poem; multiple choice questions on grammar...
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Ego maenas: maenadism, marriage, and the construction of female identity in Catullus 63 and 64.
Magazine article from: Helios; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Poems 63 and 64 of Catullus not only share marriage as a common...conceptual framework and propose that Catullus's construction of gender identity...identity for Rome itself. As a result, Catullus's representation of crisis in the...
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A companion to Catullus.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2007; 461 words
; 9781405135337 A companion to Catullus. Ed. by Marilyn B. Skinner. Blackwell...considered the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC-ca. 54 BC) vulgar...Tucson) notes that appreciation of Catullus' entire corpus did not occur until...
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Sexus Maximus! The poet who made even the Romans blush; As a bank boss sends a female worker a filthy verse by Catullus.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/27/2009; 700+ words
; ...helpfully cite the source. 'It's Catullus,' he explained. 'And not very polite...that are 'molliculi', or 'girly'; Catullus answers this charge with an insult that...quote. No wonder that even today much of Catullus remains far too rude to feature on the...
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gaius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84-ca. 54 B.C.) was a Roman lyric poet. He...reflect various stages in his love affair with "Lesbia." Catullus belonged to a circle of neoteroi, or "new poets," who...
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Catullus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Catullus (Caius Valerius Catullus) , 84? BC-54? BC, Roman poet, b. Verona. Of a well...Publius Clodius. She was suspected of murdering her husband. Catullus wrote to his beloved, addressed as Lesbia (to recall Sappho...
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84–54 bc) Roman lyric poet. He is best...of which refer to Lesbia, depicting the Roman woman, Clodia, with whom Catullus was in love. His longer works are the poems Attis and The Marriage of Peleus...
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Conon of Samos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...x2019; elegy on the discovery of Coma Berenices , which Catullus translated into Latin. Apollonius relates that Conon, in...kept by the Egyptians. The poetic assessment of his work in Catullus (66.1 – 4) — that he “ discerned...
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Catulli Carmina
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Catulli Carmina ( Songs of Catullus ). Scenic cantata by Orff , successor to his Carmina Burana , and...timp., and up to 12 percussionists. Setting of 12 Lat. poems by Catullus, with opening and closing Lat. choruses by Orff.
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