CLAS 151gp Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cornelius Nepos, Catullus 16, Lesbia
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Catullus quiz next week: about anything in charlie"s lecture - so yes, catullus things, and also his inluences on roman poetry. Neoteric poetry and its inluences, speciically the greek poet callimachus. Poems to know by number: 1, 5, 7, 51,64, 93, 94, 97, 101. What the poems are about, comparing and contrasing. Lived 84-54 bc, but historical cross-referencing from caesar histories disputes the tradiional date given by jerone (?) o. Catullus 55 and 29 refer to historical events that happened in 55, so he had to had lived unil then. Born in verona (northern italy), moved to rome someime as a child. Not much is known about his life other than from his poems, and suetonius (life of caesar?) Associated with well-to-do romans in his literary circle: poets, elected oicials. Funds from proscripions fueled the arisic growth in rome o. Oratory, philosophy, and poetry are also evolving at this ime. Comes from the greek word neoteroi - youngsters.
