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The Poems of Catullus
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Catullus c84 BC–54 BC Complete Poems About This Work Catullus wrote his poems and epigrams of personal life during the late Roman Republic and they survive in an anthology of more than a hundred items Many are caustic satirical and erotic often lampooning wellknown characters of the day including Julius Caesar and his friends Others are tender solemn and graceful Poetry of Catullus Wikipedia Catulluss carmina can be divided into three formal parts short poems in varying metres called polymetra 160 eight longer poems 6168 and fortyeight epigrams 69116 The longer poems differ from the polymetra and the epigrams not only in length but also in their subjects there are seven hymns and one mini epic or epyllion the most highly prized form for the new poets Eleven Poems of Catullus InTranslation Catullus Aesthetically radical though politically conservative the coterie followed an aesthetic program explicitly opposed to the heroic grandeur of epic favoring instead the smallscale exquisite technique of the Alexandrian poetscholar Callimachus who famously declared “Big book big evil” μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν The poems of Catullus Wikisource the free online library TranslationThe poems of Catullus For works with similar titles see 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 Gaius Valerius Catullus Poetry Foundation The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus has had two lives In Rome Catullus and his generation the “new poets” played an essential role in the development of Augustan poetry They helped to create the possibility that one might be a poet by profession Poems of Catullus Poem 78 GALLVS habet fratres quorum est lepidissima coniunx Poem 78b SED nunc id doleo quod purae pura puellae Poem 79 LESBIVS est pulcer quid ni quem Lesbia malit Poem 80 QVID dicam Gelli quare rosea ista labella Poem 81 NEMONE in tanto potuit populo esse Iuuenti Poem 82 QVINTI si tibi uis oculos debere Catullum Poem 83 About Gaius Valerius Catullus Academy of American Poets The surviving copy contains 116 poems in three sections sixty shorter poems written mostly in Greek lyric meters primarily hendecasyllabic or elevensyllable lines eight long poems and a set of short epigrams The shorter poems are often extremely playful and personal Catullus speaks directly to his friends in a casual voice A Latin Poem So Filthy It Wasnt Translated Until The A Latin Poem So Filthy It Wasnt Translated Until The 20th Century Catullus Carmen 16 sometimes referred to by its first line Paedicabo ego vos et irrumabo is only of several poems addressed to two men Marcus Furius Bibaculus who had an affair with Catullus young male lover Juventius and Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus
