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	Gaius Valerius Catullus - LoveToKnow 1911
		The admiration of Catullus for Sappho, the Lesbian poetess, which is clearly indicated by the imitation of her language in his fifty-first and sixty-second poems, affords an obvious explanation of the Greek name which he gave to his Roman mistress.
		Catullus brought into this circle the genius of a great poet, the social vivacity of a vigorous nature, the simplicity and sincerity of an unambitious, and the warmth of an affectionate disposition.
		But the perfection of the art of Catullus is seen in his employment of those metres which he adapted to the Latin tongue from the earlier poets of Greece, the pure iambic trimeter, as in iv.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gaius_Valerius_Catullus (2518 words)

	Dylan Bragg
		Catullus wants to experience and enjoy life to the fullest and this huge number of kisses represents a lifetime of loving.
		The joke is that Catullus, who has just uttered an outpouring of honest emotion, finishes off with an attempt to bargain with Lesbia like a shrewd salesman, appealing to her logic yet intending to satisfy his own desire.
		While it is true that Catullus speaks very passionately of his anger and pain after he and Lesbia parted, even his saddest poems show a sense of optimism behind the curtain of cynicism.
	gladstone.uoregon.edu /~dbragg1/catulluspaper.htm (1964 words)

	Catullus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catullus was an admirer of Sappho, and is the source for much of what we know or infer about that almost legendary poetess of the 7th century BC.
		Catullus 51 is a translation of Sappho 31, and 61 and 62 are certainly inspired by and perhaps translated directly from lost works of Sappho.
		Catullus 61 and Catullus 62 are epithalamia, a form of laudatory or erotic wedding-poem that Sappho had been famous for but that had gone out of fashion in the intervening centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catullus (1063 words)

	Catullus 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catullus 1 is traditionally arranged first among the poems of the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, though it was not necessarily the first poem that he wrote.
		This first poem is dedicated to the patron of Catullus, whom some consider to be sarcastic in his praise of Cornelius's history of the Italians.
		This seems to be quite an unterstatement and Catullus knows very well the quality of his poetry and also the provocative form it has.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catullus_1 (270 words)

	Catullus, U. of Saskatchewan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Catullus does not seem to be indignant at any illegal activity on the part of these governors, however, but rather at the fact that neither he nor his friends were able to profit from their service as part of these governors' cohorts.
		Catullus thus represents a social as well as a literary phenomenon, providing us with a glimpse of the life and concerns of a wealthy and talented member of the equestrian class in the midst of the turmoil of the Late Republic.
		In this sense Catullus' poetry serves as a useful corrective to the gloomy picture conveyed by the violent and chaotic politics of this period: it is clear that, despite the uncertainties of the times, for many people life went along its usual course.
	duke.usask.ca /~porterj/CourseNotes/CatullusNotes.html (2554 words)

	Catullus, U. of Saskatchewan
		Catullus does not seem to be indignant at any illegal activity on the part of these governors, however, but rather at the fact that neither he nor his friends were able to profit from their service as part of these governors' cohorts.
		Catullus thus represents a social as well as a literary phenomenon, providing us with a glimpse of the life and concerns of a wealthy and talented member of the equestrian class in the midst of the turmoil of the Late Republic.
		In this sense Catullus' poetry serves as a useful corrective to the gloomy picture conveyed by the violent and chaotic politics of this period: it is clear that, despite the uncertainties of the times, for many people life went along its usual course.
	homepage.usask.ca /~jrp638/CourseNotes/CatullusNotes.html (2554 words)

	Catullus
		The poems of Catullus survive because of a single manuscript that surfaced in the fourteenth century.
		Catullus and Callimachus did not describe the feats of ancient heroes and gods (except perhaps in re-evaluating and predominantly artistic circumstances, e.g.
		Catullus described his work as expolitum, or polished, to show that the language he used was very carefully and artistically composed.
	www.lycos.com /info/catullus--lesbia.html (692 words)

	Catullus - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Catullus' only political office was one year on the staff of the governer of Bithynia.
		Catullus was an admirer of Sappho, and is the source for much of what we know or infer about that almost legendary poetess of the 7th century BCE.
		Catullus 51 is a direct verse translation of Sappho 31, and Catullus 61 and 62 are certainly inspired by and perhaps translated directly from lost works of Sappho.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Catullus (741 words)

	The Brownstone Journal
		Catullus’ Carmen 84 is a piece of invective poetry written in elegiac couplets and aimed at Arrius, a man who over-aspirates his words in a most unstylish way.
		Catullus further mocks Arrius by claiming his mother and her entire family (brother, mother, and father) spoke this way as well.
		Although this interpretation as well as the winteriness of cio¢ enouz, are possible, Catullus often criticizes his enemies for their literary and social shortcomings (as in poems 22, 36, and 95), and so it seems to me that Fordyce might be correct in saying the joke is no more complicated than its face value (375).
	www.bu.edu /brownstone/issues/12/swanson.html (3842 words)

	Gaius Valerius Catullus Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		When Catullus went to Rome in 61, he met and fell in love with Clodia, the "Lesbia" of the poems, who was a member of the old aristocratic Claudian family and the wife of Metellus Celer.
		Catullus could be witty and charming, as in poem 13, an "invitation" to one Fabullus to dine with him--but he must bring his own dinner, for the poet's wallet is full of cobwebs.
		Catullus could be witty and obscene, as in poem 39, on a certain Egnatius, who continually grins, whether appropriately or inappropriately, in order to show off his brilliant white teeth.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/gaius-valerius-catullus (1171 words)

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		Like any other poet, Catullus’ work is obviously a reflection of his own personal perception, and as a result typically includes not only the commentaries or observations of political current affairs or society, but explores other personal themes such as, for example, issues of love and sex including homosexuality and adultery.
		Catullus in particular was merciless in his dissection of his target’s reputation, and on no occasion appears selective or conservative in his choice of invective material, where an overwhelming intensity of anger or disgust is typically apparent from his poetry.
		Catullus overall reaction however is one of apparent distaste for politics.
	members.lycos.co.uk /lyto/catullus.html (1163 words)

	Newsletter of the Friends of Amherst College Library, Volume 27, Catullus at the Folger
		Catullus, who lived roughly between 84 and 54 b.c., seems to have been scarcely known, if at all, during the Middle Ages.
		Catullus became a favorite poet in the Renaissance and a central model for neo-Latin love elegy.
		The Folger has three valuable editions of Catullus from that period: those of Muret, Statius, and Joseph Scaliger, whose 1577 edition of Catullus was of particular interest to me because of his novel approach to textual criticism.
	www.amherst.edu /library/friends/newsletter/news27/catullus.html (586 words)

	DL - Latinlit - Carmina - People of Catullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Catullus and his associates came to be known as the
		In many of his poems, Catullus expresses positive and negative feelings towards his love affair with a woman he calls Lesbia.
		In 57 BC, Catullus traveled to the neighboring province of Bithynia in order to serve his time in the military and gain some wealth.
	www.dl.ket.org /latinlit/carmina/catullus/people/catullus.htm (584 words)

	Magister White - Latin Meter and Scansion
		Catullus uses this meter in poems 11 and 51, which appear to be among the last and first ones that he writes about her.
		When Catullus uses the meter seven times, he uses it against himself in 8, against Suffenus in 22, Egnatius in 39, Sestius in 44, Rufa in 59, Lesbia in 60, and once just as an expression of joy in 31.
		Catullus uses the meter in only 62 and 64, but this style of line is also the beginning of every elegiac couplet which includes Ovid's Amores and Catullus 65-116.
	www.frapanthers.com /teachers/white/scansion.htm (1229 words)

	catullus
		Generally speaking, the joke of Catullus' exposing Caecilius as a forger would be very much in line with the Catullus as we know him from the rest of his short poems.
		In addition, among the most interesting of Catullus' invective poems are some pieces that, just as c.35, seem to be performing a form of punishment of friends on the level of language.
		We do not know whether Catullus composed his poem from beginning to end, but it is at least possible that Caecilius used these lines from the beginning of c.63 to make a lasting impression upon his girl.
	www.let.ru.nl /V.Hunink/documents/catullus_md.htm (1558 words)

	Catullus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Catullus wrote to his beloved, addressed as Lesbia (to recall Sappho of Lesbos), a series of superb little poems that run from early passion and tenderness to the hatred and disillusionment that overwhelmed him after his mistress was faithless.
		He was influenced by the Alexandrians and drew much on the Greeks for form and meter, but his genius outran all models.
		Catullus is one of the greatest lyric poets of all time.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Catullus.html (274 words)

	Catullus, 1-14
		Although I agree with Skinner that the scorta in Catullus' polymetrics are generally present as a foil to the image of lepida Lesbia, this particular scortillum causes a small chink to appear in the speaker's armor of elegant charm.
		Their message is a discordant recollection of the days when bright suns shone and Catullus proclaimed, "vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus." Here the words, "cum suis vivat valeatque moechis" transfer the beloved Lesbia of poem 5 to the sordid inelegant world of the scorta.
		In this literary world of love and charm, the psychology of the young, revolutionary types is expressed in the psychology of their literary, social, and love endeavors, all of which at times share vocabulary and coexist in parallel lines of meaning for the same piece.
	www.sewanee.edu /faculty/seiters/classdoc/Cat1to14.html (3135 words)

	Reporter 3/6/98: Classical Tripos, 2000: Prescribed subjects and books
		Lysias 1 and Demosthenes 54; Plato, Republic 2; Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1-3.
		Theocritus 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18, 24, 28; Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 1 and 4.
		Virgil, Aeneid 1 and 12; Livy 5; Horace, Odes 4.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5740/10.html (643 words)

	Catullus Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Paris, Helen and the unity of Catullus 51.' CB 77, 2001, 161-7.
		The unity of Catullus 2.’ SCI 22, 2003, 85-92.
		A Callimachean allusion in Catullus 1.’ LCM 12, 1987, 22.
	www.gltc.leidenuniv.nl /index.php3?m=57&c=127 (1863 words)

	Catullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Catullus and his fellow Roman poets, however, added a dimension of devoted love to their poems that was rare in Hellenistic poetry.
		Catullus awaits the arrival of Lesbia at the house in agony, like an anxious groom awaiting the arrival of his new bride and her procession.
		Catullus then turns to Laodamia and speaks directly to her, indicating that he understands her pain and loss and also the love she felt for her husband.
	www.pogodesigns.com /JP/weddings/catullus.html (4045 words)

	Catullus: Poems
		As a poet, Catullus was revolutionary in ignoring the public audience, and writing intensely about his personal experience for an audience of fellow-poets alone.
		One thing that is certain about Catullus is his interest in the development of his own writing, and he has written much about how he worked at compositions, (Martin, 26).
		These all fit into a wild mosaic of faces and attitudes, actions and inactions, and have more to do with the way Catullus saw life than what life was really like in his time.
	www.lycos.com /info/catullus--poems.html (548 words)

	Catullus
		Jerome’s dates of birth and death of Catullus are questionable since references that Catullus made in his poetry confirm that he was alive for certain events he would not be aware of given Jerome’s dates (Thomson, 3:4).
		Catullus adapts his material to his own artistic needs and to a Roman cast of mind, but at the same time he draws deeply from Greek wells and emerges as a supreme imitator of Greek literary technique (Thomson, 19).
		Clearly, Catullus’ view on the role of the poet in society vary greatly from that of the traditional epic minded authors like Ennius whose work was read by Roman school children.
	web.clas.ufl.edu /users/tjohnson/tj/catullus.undergrad.lifeandtimes.htm (1567 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Catullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84 B.C.- c.54 B.C.) was one of the most influential Roman poets of the first century B.C. Of Catullus' life little is known for sure.
		It isn't known for sure when Catullus died; some antique sources tell he died from exhaustion at the age of 30.
		Still his sometimes quite explicit writing style was shocking to many readers, antique and modern ones, and until recently it was not easy to find an equally explicit translation of some of his poems.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Catullus (650 words)

	Catullus
		“Catullus was the leading figure of the new poets of the late Republic, breaking with the tradition of Rome’s past and finding his models in Greek poetry, both in the polished Alexandrian style and in the direct lyricism of Sappho.
		But its memorable counterpoint, for which Catullus is equally famous, are the bitter rebukes to his muse for spurning him and turning her life into a veritable ‘salax taberna’, a bordello, the front of which he declares he’ll cover with obscene graffiti:[vi]
		Catullus is unlikely to have enjoyed greater favour, even under the Empire, and so copies of his work, if they were not removed from libraries, are not likely to have multiplied, save in a few private collections.
	www.austhink.org /monk/Catullus.htm (2717 words)

	wais:topics:urine as a drink: catullus lesbia was not a lesbian
		Catullus does not approve of the practice either.
		Egnatius, for anyone who hasn't read Catullus' wonderful cycle of poems in Liber 1, is one of the many swains who enjoyed the favors of Catullus' beloved Lesbia, much to the poet's distress.
		Affair with Catullus, while her husband was still alive.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week101504/urineasdrinkcatullus102004.htm (582 words)

	catullus
		Holoka, Gaius Valerius Catullus: a systematic bibliography, Londen 1985.
		J.K. Newman, Roman Catullus and the Modification of the Alexandrian Sensibility, Hildesheim 1990.
		Wray, Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood, Cambridge 2001.
	www.let.kun.nl /~m.v.d.poel/bibliografie/catullus.htm (528 words)

	LNW 5675: Roman Poets (Ovid)
		Although Catullus has become the paragon of the secondary school AP curriculum, in part because syntactically he is not considered difficult to read, Catullus’ poetry does present readers with some complex questions.
		We will rotate between one week with three hours of reading and the next week with (1) a one and a half hour reading session and (2) a one and a half hour research workshop.
		The question must begin to address Catullus’ presentation of the role of the poet in society.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/tjohnson/tj/Catullus.syllabus.htm (1715 words)

	Courses Spring 2007
		Even though Catullus died young, at the age of 30, he and his fellow Neoterics ("New Poets") managed to revolutionize Latin poetry.
		Clodia, a notorious femme fatale and the sister of Cicero’s arch enemy Clodius), Catullus' love for poetry and his friends, and the contempt he felt for would-be poets and political enemies.
		A special emphasis will also be placed on art historical methodology (i.e., which questions are posed, what evidence is cited and how meaning is construed) and on exploring issues of gender and private patronage as well as imperial propaganda and social policy.
	www.willamette.edu /cla/classics/spring2007/index.html (1034 words)

	Power Relationships in Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The debasing of the women of Rome is also evident in Catullus' poetry, through a larger sense of women as the whores of society.
		Catullus' attraction, from a historical perspective, is that he is "the first Roman to give artistic (and truly national) expression to the experience of his inmost heart," (Kiefer: 185).
		Although Kiefer proposes Catullus as a gentle, naive, and whimsical poet, clearly there is a darker side, for the hatred that Catullus expresses towards his enemies does not come from the same side of him as the thousand kisses do.
	faculty.vassar.edu /jolott/old_courses/republic1998/catullus/power.html (575 words)

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