Catullus - Latin Poet

Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet of the first century B.C. While the subject matter of his poetry covered traditional themes like marriage (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. Catullus is thought to have come from an equestrian family from Verona, and to have lived from about 84 to c. 54 B.C., mostly in Rome.