Catullus
Why is he important?
He moved Latin Poetry into unserious, unepic, subjects
He moved Poetry from the lower classes to the Sophisticates
He wrote the first awesome brevitious poems in Latin
Funny
Short
Subjective
Often Lewd
Incredibly important to the development of Latin style for eventually Augustan Poets
Ovid
Horace
Bio
He tried public service
Really, he enjoyed writing poetry
Scandal!
Public Service is the fetish
Critics
Cicero
New Poets!
Strange Poets
The Poems
Arranged frequently by Meter
Unancient, usually different meters would be established at the beginning
Lesbia
Clodia
She openly adultered
She was well-educated
Lesbia comes from her likely enjoyment of Sapphic poetry
Latin Standards: giving nom de plumes to lovers
She was 20 years senior to Catullus
Related to
Lucretious
Elegant Latin
Directness to the World
Awareness of Beauty
Catullus
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Catullus