Catullus

what makes a new poet?

poetry > politics (otium > negotium)

new poet style

shorter (epigram, lyric, epyllion)

catullus lived from

84-54 B.C.

catullus was from 

verona, probably

catullus had a villa in

sirmio, probably

polymetric poems

many different meters, 1-60

long poems

61-64 +65-68 in elegiac cuplet

epigrams

short poems in elegaic cuplet

new poets value aestetics of the

city (not the country)

Zmyrna

epyllion poem by Cinna, girl falls in love with her father (😐)

Annals

Poem by Volusius, inspired by Ennius’ annals,

lesbia poetry start and end poems (we think…?)

51 and 11

lesbia’s real name (probably)

Clodia Metelli

Clodia’s brother

Clodius Pulcher, famous politician and enemy of Cicero

Clodia’s husband

Metellus Celer

which province did catullus go to

Bythia

which governer did catullus serve when he went abroad

Gaius Memmius

pompey and julia wedding date

59 bc

caesar starts civil war

59 bc

poem 64 is known as an

epyllion

ekphrasis

verbal description of a work of art

poem 64 couples

Peleus and Thetis, Ariadne and Theseus

poem 64 beginning image

Jason and the Argonauts

Prometheus’
Prophecy

if J marries thetis, his son would defeat him, so married thetis to Pelius

ekphrasis in poem 64

description of a coverlet on the
bridal couch lines (pelius and thetis)

what statue does catullus compare ariadne to?

Bacchante

ariadne’s curse

theseus forgets to change his sails and his dad thinks he’s dead and kills himself

Myth of Protesilaus and
Laodamia

first greek hero to die in troy bc he didn’t do the propert marriage sacrifice