The Poems of Catullus
A young poet from Verona in the last decades of the Republic writes to a married woman he calls Lesbia, to friends, to rivals and to a dead brother, moving between tenderness and obscene attack. The collection tracks an affair from delight through jealousy to self-disgust, interrupted by wedding hymns, a miniature epic on Peleus and Thetis, and street-level abuse of Caesar's circle. First-person love poetry as the Latin tradition would inherit it: personal, metrically Greek, deliberately small against the scale of epic.
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- reworks ↑ Ode to Aphrodite
- alludes to ↑ The Iliad
- ↓ Roman Elegies
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