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Poems of Catullus

Introduction

Catullus was born in Verona in the year 87 BC and lived in Rome in the order of the Republic. Was that the Rome of the plots, the cryptic and beautiful ladies, of immense fortunes amassed at the expense of provincial, political assassinations, the verbal battles in the forum. Catullus was a contemporary of Caesar to whom he dedicated some verses, of Cicero and Publius Clodius, the tribune of the people who left the patriciate and became the most representative example of the gilded youth revolution. Was associated with them was short and certainly not political views, as in some of his poems reveal.

But above all a poet Catullus will always live on all those loving and lascivious verses. For the verses that speak of loss and melancholy. It is also the most insulting and mocking, they accused his beloved delivered to anyone in any corner. His passion for Lesbia, his mistress, still makes the reader excited. It stings and burns. The ancient poets are not far reciters can tell us nothing. No. Catullus speaks with plainness of the passions that we feel. And speaking of the despair and agony that is forcing us to bury a lost love. Catullus is one of the representatives of Latin poetry. Born in Verona, 84, BC and belonged to a family related to the nobility.

Discussion

The life and works of Catullus are closely related, as the woman he was madly in love is the source of inspiration for his love poems known. This woman's name was Clodia and was a noble lady married to Clodius. In his poems he called Lesbia Catullus, but clearly referred to it. In these poems may follow the path of these loves, with a first time full of happiness that leads to a second stage of disgust and anger, which lead to the final break.

In its current state, the corpus consists of about 116 catuliano poems, 102 led by a dedication to Cornelius Nepos, which certainly must have belonged to an earlier build, apparently divided into three groups. The first composition to 60 inclusive, comprising short lyric poems in several meters of issues drawn from the most diverse events in life: love poems, some directed at friends or enemies, inventive improvisations, stories, skits, and a brief Hymn to Diana.

The compositions of the third group, of a similar nature to this one, are distinguished by their common metrical form: the elegiac couplet, the poem range from 69 to the end (Martin). Finally, the central part, ie, compositions 61 to 68, are characterized by a greater extent and the importance of its subject: the numbers 61 and 62 are marriage songs or hymns wedding: first, in meters lyric-three stanzas glicónicos and ferecracio - is written on the occasion of the marriage of Manlius Torquatus, and second, in hexameters, it seems just a literary exercise, the number 63 is a narrative poem in galiambos, which tells a version of the legend Phrygian Attis, 64 ...