Catullus
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Gaius Valerius Catullus, known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexually explicit themes.
Catullus at Lesbia's by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lesbia, 1878 painting by John Reinhard Weguelin inspired by the poems of Catullus
Catullus et in eum commentarius (1554)
Poetry of Catullus
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The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus was written towards the end of the Roman Republic in the period between 62 and 54 BC.
Acme and Septimius, painting by Frederic Leighton