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	Gaius Valerius Catullus Biography - Poems
		Gaius Valerius Catullus was born in 84 BCE.
		Catullus' poetry was influenced mostly by the Greek neoteroi, especially that of Callimachus, who created a new style of poetry turning away from classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.
		Catullus 51 is in fact a direct verse translation of Sappho 31, while Catullus 61 and Catullus 62 were inspired by and perhaps translations of Sappho.
	www.poemofquotes.com /gaiusvaleriuscatullus (328 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)

	Dylan Bragg
		Though he is indeed a cynic, Catullus seems to express in general a love of life and an eagerness to experience it.
		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)

	Phyllis B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Catullus 61 has been thoroughly studied as a composite of Greek and Roman "marriage hymns," and as a source of information on Greek and Roman marriage customs (Kroll 1960, Fedeli 1983), Thomsen 1992 et al).
		This paper examines the poem as reflecting the style and thought found in the polymetric poems and argues that poem 61 cannot be fully appreciated without investigating the complexities of the contrast between its narrative structure and its language and tone.
		The former moves from the deductio to the consummatio of an "ideal" union between a handsome man and a beautiful woman, the latter suggests that the union may not be harmonious, that the bride is not as innocent as she appears, and that the marriage may be marred by sexual infidelity.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/Katz.html (481 words)

	DL - Latinlit - Carmina - People of Catullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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)

	Gaius Valerius Catullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Catullus wrote about himself (2); his poems were about things that nobody but he and a few other poet friends would care about- the daily life and trials of a well to do intelligentsia who had nothing better to do but make fun of people and lust after another man’s wife.
		Catullus was not impressed with his family’s connections though, and made fun of the practice of networking in one of his poems: “I, pete nobiles amicos” (So much for running after powerful friends!).
		Catullus authored 116 poems that are divided into sixty short poems called polymetra, eight longer poems consisting of seven hymns and one mini-epic, and forty eight epigrams.
	www.personal.psu.edu /acb5024/Catullus6.html (926 words)

	Catullus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The subject matter of Catullus' poems differs quite a bit from earlier Roman poetry, which was largely philosophical and educational in nature, professing patriotism and the virtue of the Roman people and leaders.
		In his epigrams he voiced his political opinions and lampooned political figures (Catullus lived during the end of the Republic) such as Gaius Julius Caesar, of whom he was a contemporary.
		In Troad Catullus visited his brother's gravesite at Troy, whereupon he was inspired to write one of his most famous odes with the line Frater ave atque vale (Brother, hail and farewell).
	www.dl.ket.org /latin1/historia/people/catullus.htm (716 words)

	Catullus Criticism and Essays
		Catullus is best known for his love poetry, in which eloquent expression of emotion is combined with a technical agility.
		Technically, Catullus is praised for his virtuistic use of a range of poetic meters, including the lyric, the elegiac, and iambic.
		Catullus became a leader of a loose-knit literary group called the New Poets (neoterici), which included Helvius Cinna and Licinius Calvus, and who were influenced by the ideals of the Greek Alexandrians.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/catullus (983 words)

	catullus
		J.K. Newman, Roman Catullus and the Modification of the Alexandrian Sensibility, Hildesheim 1990.
		Wray, Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood, Cambridge 2001.
		Clarke, Imagery of colour and shining in Catullus, Propertius and Horace, New York 2003.
	www.let.kun.nl /~m.v.d.poel/bibliografie/catullus.htm (554 words)

	panoussi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The ritual element, however, may not be dismissed as a grotesque or merely exotic decor; on the contrary, both the depiction of Attis' maenadic activity and the images of resistance to mistress Cybele that follow reveal Catullus' manipulation of the topos of female resistance to sexual initiation and the bridal transition.
		Through this interpretation the use of the ritual element becomes essential to the construction of Attis' gender, since s/he is cast as a virgin in the manner of the virginal brides of Catullus 61 and 62 and of Ariadne in 64.
		Thus, according to Seaford, in tragedy, the image of Bacchic frenzy followed by the maenadic departure from home is associated with the negation of marriage ritual and the destruction of the household.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/98mtg/abstracts/panoussi.html (684 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)

	Catullus - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		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.
		61 and 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.
	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)

	Catullus \| Životopisy online
		Catullus v těchto verších přináší do římského básnictví z řecké poezie saphickou strofu, glykoneje, choliamby a zvláště pak samozřejmě plynoucí jedenáctislabičný falaikos.
		Vrchol své tvorby vidí sám Catullus v básních druhého oddílu své sbírky (básně 61-64).
		Báseň 62, epithalamion (svatební píseň) podle řeckého vzoru, má originální protějšek v básni 61, která vychází z římských tradic, staví na břitkém paralelismu a má aktuální poslání (adresátem je Catullův přítel, ženící se Manlius Torquatus).
	zivotopisyonline.cz /catullus.php (484 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)

	Gaius Valerius Catullus
		Catullus was still alive in 55-54 BC on the evidence of four of his poems and died young, according to the poet Ovid at the age of 30.
		Catullus' 116 extant poems were mostly written between 61 and 54 BC but cannot be dated exactly.
		Some of it was sweet and joyful, the rest moving and sad, singing to us of the poet's ancestral homeland; the love of a mistress; the death of a dear brother; the goddess Diana, revered by the Romans as the embodiment of hunting and healing.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /120302.html (1133 words)

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		Catullus describes the marriage of Peleus and Thetis as a remarkable and auspicious union (foedus) based on mutual love and complete concord (concordia). A few lines further on, he also refers to it as a ‘happy union’ (felix foedus, Cat.
		In fact, in Catullus, Statius and Claudian, sex and the birth of offspring appear to be the sole raison d’être of the couple’s union.
		In Catullus 62, too, fulfilling the sexual needs of her husband is seen as a vital aspect of a woman’s calling in life.
	www.und.ac.za /und/classics/scholia/temp/bas8.doc (5500 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		Catullus is not all that approachable a poet.
		Catullus seems to use the word "bonum," or "good" in Latin, with a great emphasis on the idea of the "soft" as we might say this or that is beautiful:
		In the case of the Theseus and Ariadna myth that Catullus retells, Theseus leaves Ariadna deserted, and in her misery she curses him and the universe falls out of order.
	www.corpse.org /issue_9/critiques/gallagher.htm (1430 words)

	Sample Chapter for Putnam, M.C.J.: Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace.
		The poems where Catullus most strikingly combines time and place, for example 46, on the arrival of spring in Bithynia, and its effects, as seen in poems 4 and 31, are absorbed by Horace into several odes that center on the idea of journey, whether literal or figurative, experiential or allegorical.
		The persona that Catullus tends to present is one for whom intensity, projected by immediate reaction to the present, is paramount.
		Catullus says: seize the day, with its joys and sorrows, and, if you happen to be a poet, ask of your imagination to pose for itself as its primary task the framing of the hour’s essence.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/i8298.html (3699 words)

	Catullus and His Wedding Songs
		Catullus and his fellow Roman poets, however, added a dimension of devoted love to their poems that was rare in Hellenistic poetry.
		Yet Catullus was not completely reconciled with this new morality, and instead of making a clean break with the traditional values of marriage,he transformed his mistress into his "wife" in his poetry.
		Catullus wrote two wedding songs that provide ample material for exploring the evolving wedding ceremony in the late Republic.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/consortium/ancientweddings13.html (354 words)

	Carmen 61: The Wedding of Junia Aurunculeia and Manlius Torquatus
		The ritual of the bride unwillingly leaving her mother's embrace is seen throughout Carmen 61, "dedis a gremio suae/matris" (58-9) and "flet quod ire necesse est" (80).
		Catullus encourages the bride, as a pronuba might, to accept her lot and go with her new husband, when he tells her "flere desine" (81).
		Catullus concludes his advice to the bride later in the poem by wishing that she will have the same chaste reputation as Penelope, again stressing the importance of pudicitia, chastity, in evaluating a Roman matron:
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/consortium/ancientweddings14.html (753 words)

	Catullus - Latin Text and English Translation
		All 116 poems of Catullus are now available in Latin with facing English translation.
		I should admonish those unfamiliar with Catullus that a good deal of his work deals with sexual topics and themes.
		Catullus on the Web: A short list of the best resources for Catullus on the web.
	www.theaterofpompey.com /catullus/index.shtml (347 words)

	Catullus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catullus sometimes used a meter that Sappho developed, called the Sapphic strophe.
		The epistolatory novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder features Catullus, his poetry, his relationship (and correspondence) with Clodia, correspondence from his family and a description of his death.
		Catullus' poems and the closing section by Suetonius are the only documents in the novel which are not imagined.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catullus (1219 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.01.05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		One of the surprising things about Catullan scholarship, given the nearly universal prominence of Catullus in Latin curricula, is that it has been hard to find introductions to the poet that are at once reliable and readable.
		The first of these, "Between Myth and History: The Life of Catullus," is a useful summary of what we know and think we know about the life of Catullus.
		Hurley does a good job of pointing out where our evidence is unreliable while still acknowledging that the life of Catullus as reconstructed in the nineteenth century has taken on a life of its own and has to be reckoned with even though it may not, in every respect, be accurate.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-01-05.html (839 words)

	Catullus Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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
		Catullus is a master of his language, weaving a matrix of words into lyric.
		Catullus has fucked Venus herself, licked the sweat off the upper lip of Bacchus, and given birth to a blues lyric that implodes time.
		Whether this was the original order that Catullus would have preferred, or whether this is the decision of some other human is too far back in history to pursue, as well as an uninteresting and unproductive reading of the work.
	www.cipherjournal.com /html/catullus.html (3048 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.
	user.let.kun.nl /~m.v.d.poel/bibliografie/catullus.htm (528 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.31 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The vast majority of the individual notes simply present such information as is found in a glossary, or in the vocabulary at the end of the book (although there are exceptions: 1, 35 and 65, for example, have some more detailed notes).
		Commentaries on Catullus are in no short supply and even within the sub-category of student editions there is considerable competition.
		E.g., C. Fordyce, Catullus (Oxford 1961); K. Quinn, Catullus: The Poems (London 1970); J. Ferguson, Catullus (Lawrence, KA 1985); D. Garrison, The Student's Catullus (London 1992); J. Godwin, Catullus: Poems 61-68 (Warminster 1995); D. Thomson, Catullus.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-11-31.html (1606 words)

	Catullus
		Alas and alack......and Catullus plays it to the hilt: Her distraught pain, how lovely the birdie was, and some funereal lines (qui nunc...
		This is a strange scene of a threesome at dinner or a party, as she lambasts Catullus in front of her railing husband, who thoroughly enjoys the scene.
		Unlike many of Catullus' poems which have clear relevance to something in the author's life or in his world, this delicately and finely finished poem is simply a work of art, an art-poem as much as a Schubert Lied is an art- song.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/Texts/catullus4.html (5334 words)

	Catullus Translations - Welcome - Gaius Valerius Catullus
		All texts of Catullus in Latin, including the most famous Lesbia poems, which variously express deep passion and devotion, and hatred and scorn for a mysterious lady, identified only as Lesbia.
		Read about Catullus himself, his love for Lesbia and the style of his poetry.
		Translations of Catullus poems in many languages, including Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Rioplatense, Russian, and many more.
	www.negenborn.net /catullus (236 words)

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