Gaius Valerius Catullus ( ca.

Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town.

In one of his poems Catullus describes his happy return to the family villa at Sirmio on Lake Garda near Verona.

Catullus appears to have spent most of his young adult years in Rome.

His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus, and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius ( son of the orator and rival of Cicero ) and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated a libellus of poems, the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.

In his poems Catullus describes several stages of their relationship: initial euphoria, doubts, separation, and his wrenching feelings of loss.

There survives no ancient biography of Catullus: his life has to be pieced together from scattered references to him in other ancient authors and from his poems.

Though upon his elder brother's death Catullus lamented that their “ whole house was buried along ” with the deceased, the existence ( and prominence ) of Valerii Catulli is attested in the following centuries.

Wiseman argues that after the brother's death Catullus could have married, and that, in this case, the later Valerii Catulli may have been his descendants.

After his rediscovery in the late Middle Ages, Catullus again found admirers.

Indeed, Catullus was never considered one of the canonical school authors, although his body of work is on the reading lists for American Ph. D. programs in the classics, and is still taught at secondary school level in the United Kingdom.

There is no scholarly consensus on whether Catullus himself arranged the order of the poems.

* condolences: some poems of Catullus are solemn in nature.

All these poems describe the lifestyle of Catullus and his friends, who, despite Catullus's temporary political post in Bithynia, lived their lives withdrawn from politics.

Above all other qualities, Catullus seems to have valued venustas, or charm, in his acquaintances, a theme which he explores in a number of his poems.

But it is not the traditional notions Catullus rejects, but rather their particular application to the vita activa of politics and war.

So, despite seeming frivolity of his lifestyle, Catullus measured himself and his friends by quite ambitious standards.

Catullus and Callimachus did not describe the feats of ancient heroes and gods ( except perhaps in re-evaluating and predominantly artistic circumstances, e. g. poems 63 and 64 ), focusing instead on small-scale personal themes.

Year 64 ( LXIV ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

* LXIV.

Diary entries from the years AD 1964, AD 3964, and LXIV (= 64 ) all show the same dissatisfaction with the current situation and the same desire to live either some thousand years later or earlier, that from 3964 also due to the unpleasant inventions of another inhabitant of the writer's plastic skyscraper, which enable him to see her through the walls.

* Edward Chaney and Jane Hall, ‘ Herbert Horne ’ s 1889 Diary of his first Journey to Italy ’, The Walpole Society, LXIV ( 2002 ), pp. 69 – 125

The 1999 Australian Grand Prix ( formally the LXIV Qantas Australian Grand Prix ) was a Formula One motor race held on 7 March 1999 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia.

Then the goddess appears in a number of guises: the moon, Mother Earth ( in the Randolph reference ), the Sibyl ( last encountered in the context of the American Revolution in Canto LXIV ), Isis and Kuanon.

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LXIV ), and opened in stages: the section between Tunbridge Wells and was opened on 1 September 1851.

* J. Lynch, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo ’ s self portrait in the Brera, in « Gazette des Beaux Arts », LXIV, 1964, pp. 189 ss.

Facing four battalions of the 708th Volksgrenadier Division ( part of General Max Grimmeiss ' LXIV Army Corps ) supported by heavy tank destroyers and artillery, the 1st Division's 1st Brigade fought in conditions similar to that experienced by the Americans to the south.

Slaves, Paris, LXIV / 4, 1992. are a lot articles about Kschessinska's ballet school.