* Archibald MacLeish wrote a poem entitled " You Also, Gaius Valerius Catullus ," where he addresses the poet.

Catullus wrote a poem to Diana in which she has more than one alias: Latonia, Lucina, Iuno, Trivia, Luna.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Authors whose epigrams survive include Catullus, who wrote both invectives and love epigrams – his poem 85 is one of the latter.

Catullus also wrote masterful poems that attacked his enemies.

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.

The poet Catullus wrote several love poems concerning a frequently unfaithful woman he called Lesbia, identified in the mid-second century AD by the writer Apuleius ( Apologia 10 ) as a " Clodia.

Landor received a visit from his son Arnold in 1842 and in that year wrote a long essay on Catullus for Forster who was editor of " Foreign Quarterly Review " and followed it up with The Idylls of Theocritus.

This form continued in popularity through the history of the classical world ; the Roman poet Catullus wrote a famous epithalamium, which was translated from or at least inspired by a now-lost work of Sappho.

He wrote satirical poems after the manner of Catullus, whose bitterness he rivaled, according to Quintilian ( Instit.

At 13 he began to circulate Latin letters ; at 17 he wrote essays in Greek versification ; and at 18 he published an edition of Catullus.

Notably, Catullus and Ovid wrote in non-elegiac meters as well, but Propertius and Tibullus did not.

) For the Dale Warland Singers, Argento wrote I Hate and I Love ( 1981 ), with text by Catullus, and Walden Pond ( 1996 ), based on excerpts from Thoreau.

Catullus shared the Alexandrian's preference for short poems and wrote within a variety of meters borrowed from Greece, including Aeolian forms such as hendecasyllabic verse, the Sapphic stanza and Greater Asclepiad, as well as iambic verses such as the choliamb and the iambic tetrameter catalectic ( a dialogue meter borrowed from Old Comedy ).

Catullus 1 is traditionally arranged first among the poems of the Roman poet Catullus, though it was not necessarily the first poem that he wrote.

In Latin, the genre grew in prestige and boldness, as major authors including Juvenal and Catullus wrote extended invectives without the cushion of anonymity.

Como was the birthplace of many historically notable figures, including the ( somewhat obscure ) poet Caecilius who is mentioned by Catullus in the 1st century BCE, the far more substantial literary figures of Pliny the Elder and the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, the scientist Alessandro Volta, and Cosima Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner and long-term director of the Bayreuth Festival.

He defends his work and his life with equal vigor, appealing to the many poets who had written on the same themes as he — among them Anacreon, Sappho, Catullus, even Homer.

Published in 1974, this book relates the Sherlock Holmes stories in surprising ways to Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Dionysus, Christ, Catullus, John Bunyan, Robert Browning, Boccaccio, Napoleon, Racine, Frankenstein, Flaubert, George Sand, Socrates, Poe, General Charles George Gordon, Melville, Joyce's Ulysses, T. S. Eliot, and many others.

Published in 1974, this book argues for a surprising relationship between the Sherlock Holmes stories and Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Dionysus, Christ, Catullus, John Bunyan, Robert Browning, Boccaccio, Napoleon, Racine, Frankenstein, Flaubert, George Sand, Socrates, Poe, General Charles George Gordon, Melville, Joyce's Ulysses, T. S. Eliot, and many others.

* Catullus translations: Catullus's work in Latin and multiple ( ten or more ) modern languages, including scanned versions of every poem

Clodia maintained several other lovers, including Marcus Caelius Rufus, Catullus ' friend.

Many erotic poems have survived from Ancient Greece and Rome, the authors including the Greeks Straton of Sardis, Sappho of Lesbos ( lyrics ); and the Romans Automedon ( The Professional and Demetrius the Fortunate ), Philodemus ( Charito ), Marcus Argentarius, Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, Martial and Juvenal and the anonymous Priapeia.

The detective is known as Gordianus the Finder, and he mixes with non-fictional citizens of the Republic including Sulla, Cicero, Marcus Crassus, Catilina, Catullus, Pompey, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony.

Gordianus interacts with non-fictional citizens including Sulla, Cicero, Marcus Crassus, Catullus, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Quintus Sertorius, and Mark Antony.

With the wealth of the Imperial Age, several important figures decided to build their villae in Trastevere, including Clodia, ( Catullus ' " friend ") and Julius Caesar ( his garden villa, the Horti Caesaris ).

Of the polymetric poems of Catullus, forty-three are hendecasyllabic.

Like the majority of Catullus ' poems, the meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic.

" The meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic, a common form in Catullus ' poetry.

The meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic, a common form in Catullus ' poetry.

According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.

The foremost elegiac writers of the Roman era were Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid.

Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus.

The meter is elegiac couplet, which was usually employed in love poetry, such as Catullus ' addresses to Lesbia.

Catullus, as was common to his era, was greatly influenced by stories from Greek and Roman myth.

David Campbell has briefly summarized some of the most arresting qualities of Sappho's poetry: Clarity of language and simplicity of thought are everywhere evident in our fragments ; wit and rhetoric, so common in English love-poetry and not quite absent from Catullus ' love poems, are nowhere to be found.

Elision was a common device in the works of Catullus.

The most common evidence for this connection is the implied charge of incest usually detected in Catullus 79 in comparison to the charges of incest against Clodia Metelli in the Pro Caelio.

Rather, Catullus ’ s reference to the reluctance of Clodius ’ s associates to exchange with him a common social kiss implies connotations of fellatio.

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.

Catullus ' love poem " Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus " in the translation by Ben Jonson was set to music ( lute accompanied song ) by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.

* The new musical TULLY ( In No Particular Order ), which appeared in the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, loosely adapts the poems of Catullus while retaining the non-linear structure of the published edition, exploring his relationships with both Clodia and Juventius, renamed Julie, and the timeless nature of memory and love.

* Catullus is discussed in John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1969 ) as being one of the foremost poets of love, sexuality and desire.

This notion, however, is much more generally expressed in Latin by placere or delectāre, which are used more colloquially, the latter used frequently in the love poetry of Catullus.

The short love lyrics of Catullus have never been surpassed in emotional intensity.

The story tells of Catullus, a lovesick young man who falls in love with Lesbia, a woman who does not remain faithful to him.

Silphium as Laserpicium makes an appearance in a poem ( Catullus 7 ) of Catullus to his lover Lesbia ( though others have suggested that the reference here is instead to silphium's use as a treatment for mental illness, tying it to the ' madness ' of love ).

Lesbia was the literary pseudonym of the great love of Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus ( ca.

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 51 is a poem by the Roman famous love poet Gaius Valerius Catullus ( c. 84 – c. 54 BC ).