Ninaurban·Mar 13Maneskin and love elegyI was listening to Maneskin’s album Rush! this morning and I started to notice a connection to the themes of Catullus’ love elegies to the…
Roman ALAN·Feb 22The rigid hold of the villanelleWithin the nineteen lines of the villanelle, two lines are repeated six times. All right!, you might say, Only seven more lines to compose!
Frank Breslin·Dec 4, 2024“Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris”Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow (Horace, Odes, 4. 7.16). When we’re young, these are but words. However, there’s a world…
Frank Breslin·May 26, 2024The Romans on the Afterlife: Part 1Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. When our brief light goes out, there will be one eternal night of sleep…
Albin Thörn Cleland·Aug 23, 2022Catullus on Irrumation and Artistic FreedomWas Catullus as snuddly-cuddly as the 5th carmen intimates? Did he prefer to spoon or to be spooned?
