The Poems of Catullus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781456303709)

Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny, and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty. Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia, often identified as Clodia Metelli, a femme fatale ten years his senior and the smart, adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat. Cicero later claimed she poisoned her husband. (Text refers to a previous edition).

Author: Robinson Ellis, Catullus
ISBN-10: 1456303708
ISBN-13: 9781456303709
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2010
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.20d