Poems of Catullus

Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus''s poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers ...