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?
InIn Medias ResbyMark Buchan·Dec 31, 2021The End of the AffairCatullus, The American Songbook, and Stephen SondheimA response icon1A response icon1
InOstrakabyEleanor Cliffe·Mar 17, 2021Some Queer Versions of CatullusCw. homophobia, homophobic language, sexual threat
InOstrakabyChloë Griggs·Mar 31, 2020The poet grins in his urn — Catullus and the far-reaching offence caused by Poem 16While researching for my dissertation topic, I was reminded of the first time I was shocked by an ancient text.
InOstrakabyTate Standage·Feb 7, 2020“Words have no meanings in death”: Translating Catullus 101This is an edited version of my project/essay for the module Language Translation, and Interpretation last year. The assignment was to…A response icon2A response icon2
Tim Kenny·Aug 26, 2018‘Breast is Best’? Rereading Catullus 64.18What if the opening line had read, “Mommy died today”? How would we have seen Meursault then? Likely, our first impression would have been…
