The end of winter has produced mountains of poetry, but two thousand years' worth has not bettered Catullus's lyrical evocation of this most poetic of seasons. Here in North Carolina, the sap is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quite an extraordinary chapter in the already extraordinary story of Mark Lowe and Jordan Wimmer. For those who haven't been following the lurid details, this is an ongoing employment tribunal case at ...

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