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By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide to Ancient History since 1997

Poetry Month - Catullus

Thursday April 5, 2007
Catullus was a Roman poet of the first century B.C. While the subject matter of his poetry covered traditional themes like the marriage poem (epithalamium), Catullus was a new or neoteric poet who also wrote personal poems about the loves (and hates) of his life. Some of the poems are filled with invective. One of these warns the reader to avoid making judgments about the poet based on the poet's poems. Despite this, of the limited amount we know about Catullus, some of it does come from his poetry.
Read more about Catullus.
Also see Irene Hahn's Blog on Catullus.

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