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This article lists the poems of Catullus and their various properties. Catullus' poems can be divided into three groups: [1] the polymetrics (poems 1–60) the long poems (poems 61–68) the epigrams (poems 69–116)
The next poem in the collection is Catullus’s longest and most ambitious, a 408-line epyllion that explores in a narrative context many of the issues that have occupied Catullus elsewhere. In this poem Catullus describes the Argonauts’ first voyage and the forthcoming marriage of Peleus and Thetis—the arrival of the wedding guests, the ...
These poems capture the full spectrum of love, from its initial ecstasy to its eventual bitterness and despair. In addition to love poetry, Catullus wrote scathing invective, playful and obscene verse, and tender poems of friendship and affection.
The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus was written towards the end of the Roman Republic in the period between 62 and 54 BC. The collection of approximately 113 poems includes a large number of shorter epigrams, lampoons, and occasional pieces, as well as nine long poems mostly concerned with marriage.
Nov 16, 2018 · These are the surviving works of Gaius Valerius Catullus, an ancient Roman poet. As a member of the poetae novi, Catullus wrote poems about primarily personal themes, including love (budding, reciprocated, and betrayed), satire (especially of the pretentious), friendship, and death.
C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, Poem 1. To whom inscribe my charming new book—just out and with ashen pumice polished? Cornelius, to you! for you used to deem my triflings of account, and at a time when you alone of Italians dared unfold the ages' abstract in three chronicles—learned, by Jupiter!—and most laboriously written.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (Classical Latin: [ˈɡaːius waˈlɛrius kaˈtullus]; c. 84 – c. 54 BC), known as Catullus (kə-TUL-əs), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexually explicit themes.
