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Catullus

Catullus

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics vor 1 Jahr

The brilliant Roman love poet is the poster boy for teen angst.

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The brilliant Roman love poet is the poster boy for teen angst.
He feels everything intensely, from the stealing of his favourite
napkin to the death of his lover Lesbia's pet sparrow. And then
he dies young. Of course the Romantics loved him, as do his
biographer Dr Daisy Dunn and Professor Llewelyn Morgan.

Born to an aristocratic family in Verona, Catullus is fearless in
abusing in sophisticated verse his father's friend Julius Caesar,
his ex-lover Lesbia and the poets unlucky enough to be his
contemporaries. Satirical, scurrilous and obscene, his popularity
endures.

'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author
of 'Divine Might', 'Stone Blind', and 'A Thousand Ships' as well
as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about
Ancient Greek and Rome.

Dr Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist. Her books,
Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet, and The
Poems of Catullus: A New Translation, were published in 2016 and
earned her a place in the Guardian‘s list of leading female
historians.

Producer...Beth O'Dea