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' 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mitchell (Beowulf) beautifully translates Catullus (84–54 BCE), retaining the original poems’ hendecasyllabic form while lending a punchy, plucky voice to the ancient poet. Mitchell explains his ...

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 ...

Green compares Catullus to Byron—both were well-connected, wrote poetry full of allusions to contemporary affairs, and were no strangers to scandal—and accepts the traditional identification of the ...

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