Catullus

Catullus is one of the most important ancient poets who wrote in Latin. He was a contemporary of Caesar whom he ridicules.

Catullus was a Roman neoteric poet.

Malacus and cinaedos were Greek borrowings to describe men Romans viewed as unmanly.

A look at the chiastic structure and corresponding passions of Catullus Carmen 85 Odi et Amo.

Steven Saylor's mystery about the murder of an Alexandrian philosopher, featuring the infamous widow Lesbia, her brother Clodius, Catullus, the poet who wrote about them, Crassus, Cicero, Caelius, and Gordianus the Finder.

William Harris' article analyzing the love poems by Catullus. Latin text included. Also see Harris' The Lady of Didyma, based on the poem by Catullus on Cybele. Provides some details of the Attis and Cybele myth and worship.

Catullus' "Let us live and love" poem in Latin, with photographs of ancient artifacts illustrating some of the Latin vocabulary.

John Porter's article on the Latin poet, Gaius Valerius Catullus discusses the following aspects of his life, work, and times: the Collection, his life, his politics and social position as eques, Catullus the Neoteric poet, and his relationship with Lesbia.

Many of the poems of Catullus, in Latin, with notes on vocabulary and meter, from Ravenna High School Latin. Requires Shockwave.

Hypertext edition of Catullus with concordance. Takes Catullus text from Project Libellus, an ongoing attempt to provide a library of classical Latin/Greek texts with minimal redistribution restrictions.

Information on Catullus and Lesbia (Clodia), with the poems, in Latin and in English, with many poems translated into other languages, including French, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Russian, Japanese, and more.

"Recording Catullus' poems as songs began as an effort to create...that effect the originals may have had on Roman audiences...It focuses attention back onto the Latin, rather than the translation." This site provides a poem-by-poem resuscitation of Latin -- put into song.