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- In his longer poems Catullus produced studies that deeply influenced the writers and poets of the Augustan Age: two charming marriage hymns; one frenzied cult hymn of emasculation; one romantic narrative in hexameters (lines of six feet) on the marriage of Peleus with the sea goddess Thetis; and four elegiac pieces, consisting of an epistle introducing a translation of an elegant conceit by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus, followed by a pasquinade, or scurrilous conversation, between the poet...
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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)
Catullus's poetry is characterized by its directness of emotion, its use of colloquial language, and its exploration of themes such as love, loss, friendship, and satire. He wrote in a variety of meters and forms, including elegiac couplets, hendecasyllabic verse, and epigrams.
He was a friend of Cicero and Atticus and does not seem to have appreciated neoteric poetry. Catullus’s praise is suitably ambiguous: he describes Nepos’s own writing as doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis (learned, by Jupiter, and full of labor).
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.
Catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of 116 carmina (the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions), which can be divided into three formal parts: sixty short poems in varying metres, called polymetra, eight longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams.
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.
Catullus’ heart is hardened, he will not look to you nor call against your wishes— how you’ll regret it when nobody comes calling! So much for you, bitch—your life is all behind you! Now who will come to see you, thinking you lovely? Whom will you love now, and whom will you belong to? Whom will you kiss? And whose lips will you nibble ...
