Catullus
Subtitle: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: July 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780786714728
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: general; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Latin Literature; Ancient Rome - History; Biography / Autobiography; Hellenic languages; Latin; Biography/Autobiography; Ancient Rome; Literary; Ancient and Classical; Poetry; History / Modern / General; Ancient - Rome; Biography; Elegiac poetry, Latin; History and criticism; Love poetry, Latin; Poets, Latin
First sentence: Gaius Valerius Catullus is always called a Roman but in reality he was half-Celtic with the mystically poetic imagination of that race.