The Roman poet Catullus' affair with his mistress Lesbia may not be the greatest love story in the history of Western literature. But it's surely the most human. The 25 poems that the youthful ...

When you hear about the Classics with a capital "C," you might imagine ancient men sculpted out of white marble, or epic poems being inscribed on great scrolls of parchment. You probably think of war ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted ...

The Roman poet Catullus (Vallus Galerius Catullus, 84bc-54bc) lived for such a short time and in such a glorified period of Roman power, dominance, conquest and empire building, that two things are ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Catullus is every teenager’s favourite Roman poet. He is the one WB Yeats imagined in “The Scholars”, shaming the ...

Daisy Dunn’s Catullus’s Bedspread: the Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet, alongside her new translations of his poetry, offer a rollicking good read – as long as they’re not taken too much at face value ...

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