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Catullus and Callimachus
Catullus was influenced by both archaic and Hellenistic Greek verse and belonged to a group of Roman poets called the Neoteroi (" newer poets "), who spurned epic poetry, following the lead of Callimachus, and instead composed brief highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres.
Callimachus celebrated the transformation in a poem, of which only a few lines remain, but there is a fine translation of it by Catullus.
The Europa, along with Callimachus ' Hecale and such Latin examples as Catullus 64, is a major example of the Hellenistic phenomenon of the epyllion.
The poem Coma Berenices by Greek poet Callimachus ( lost, but known in a Latin translation or paraphrase by Catullus ), apparently refers to her killing of Demetrius: " Let me remind you how stout-hearted you were even as a young girl: have you forgotten the brave deed by which you gained a royal marriage?

Catullus and did
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.
However, Ellis did not recognise the importance of his own discovery, and failed to consult it for his Commentary on Catullus ( 1876 ), thereby attracting criticism.
Notably, Catullus and Ovid wrote in non-elegiac meters as well, but Propertius and Tibullus did not.

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lifestyle of Catullus and his friends, who, despite Catullus's temporary political post in Bithynia, lived their lives withdrawn from politics.

Catullus and ancient
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.
The pursuit of law had little attraction for him ; he enjoyed more the reading of the ancient classics, especially Ovid, Catullus, and Tibullus.
Hymen was celebrated in the ancient marriage song of unknown origin ( called a Hymenaios ) Hymen o Hymenae, Hymen delivered by G. Valerius Catullus.
With the exception of a few major writers, such as Cicero, Caesar, Lucretius and Catullus, ancient accounts of Republican literature are glowing accounts of jurists and orators who wrote prolifically but who now can't be read because their works have been lost, or analyses of language and style that appear insightful but can't be verified because there are no surviving instances.
Other than epitaphs, examples of ancient elegy as a poem of mourning include Catullus ' Carmen 101, on his dead brother, and elegies by Propertius on his dead mistress Cynthia and a matriarch of the prominent Cornelian family.
Most ancient Greek and Roman chroniclers, poets, grammarians and scholars ( Eratosthenes, Varro, Apollodorus of Athens, Ovid, Censorinus, Catullus, and Castor of Rhodes ) believed in a threefold division of history: ádelon ( obscure ), mythikón ( mythical ) and historikón ( historical ) periods.
pp. 287-293 ), from which it is difficult to see how ancient critics could have regarded him as the master of Ovid or Catullus.
Though homoeroticism can differ from the interpersonal homoerotic — as a set of artistic and performative traditions, in which such feelings can be embodied in culture and thus expressed into the wider society — some authors have cited the influence of personal experiences in ancient authors such as Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius in their homoerotic poetry.
However, the elegy couplet was originally used by ancient Greek poets to express grief and lamentation, making it an entirely suitable form to express Catullus ' mourning.
Catullus 4 is a poem by the ancient Roman writer Catullus.

Catullus and except
If we except Catullus and Simonides, it might be hard to match and it would be impossible to overmatch the flawless and blameless yet living and breathing beauty of his most perfect elegies, epigrams or epitaphs.

Catullus and perhaps
Catullus 51 follows Sappho 31 so closely that some believe the later poem to be, in part, a direct translation of the earlier poem, and 61 and 62 are certainly inspired by and perhaps translated directly from lost works of Sappho.
The most famous example of classical epyllion is perhaps Catullus 64.
Catullus writes about a former friend named Rufus who betrayed him in an unspecified way, perhaps referring to the affair with Clodia ( usually identified with the loved then reviled " Lesbia " of Catullus's poetry ), the alleged attempt of Caelius to poison her, or subsequent attacks on her through Cicero.

Catullus and e
Cerinthus was most likely a pseudonym, in the style of the day ( e. g. Catullus ' Lesbia, Ovid's Corinna ).
Lesbia is the subject of 25 of Catullus ' 116 surviving poems, and these display a wide range of emotions ( see Catullus 85 ), ranging from tender love ( e. g. Catullus 5, Catullus 7 ), to sadness and disappointment ( e. g. Catullus 72 ), and to bitter sarcasm ( e. g. Catullus 8 ), following the often unsteady course of Catullus ' relationship.

Catullus and .
* Catullus, LXIV.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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