Articles related to "Catullus"

Brief summary of the life and poetry of Latin poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a great admirer of Sappho, and famous for his love poems.

Champion whinger or sensitive, new-age guy? An introduction to Catullus, one of the first love poets of the Latin language.

The reader is taken on an emotional journey in this collection of great short fiction.

Brief biography of Greek poet Sappho, one of the greatest poets of ancient Greece, with work recovered from nine books of poetry fragments.

Roman love elegy relied on stock characters to invent whole worlds in few words. Much elegiac humour came from the twists that poet's spun on these familiar characters.

By turns anguished and satirical, the love elegists rejected poetic tradition and drew on their lives, their loves and their literary ambitions to write elegiac couplets.

Brief biography of German composer Carl Orff, his life, career, list of works. Famous for scenic cantata Carmina Burana.

Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid.

The role of a roman woman was always a supporting one. The training to prepare a girl for such a life began the moment she was born, if she were allowed to live at all.

Feminism is the movement which promotes a belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes.

John Donne's "The Flea" deploys puns, logic and a metaphysical conceit in an attempt to seduce the listener.

Ariadne, princess of Crete, helped an Athenian hero, Theseus escape the Labyrinth only to be left deserted on the island of Naxos. Eventually, she is rescued by Bacchus