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Catullus Bedspread: The Life of Romes Most Erotic Poet

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By (author): Daisy Dunn

A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Romes first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another mans wife and made it known to the world through his verse.

This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Romes greatest writers.

Living through the debauchery, decadence and spectacle of the crumbling Roman Republic, Catullus remains famous for the sharp, immediate poetry with which he skewered Romes sparring titans Pompey, Crassus and his fathers friend, Julius Caesar. But it was for his erotic, scandalous but often tender love elegies that he became best known, inspired above all by his own lasting affair with a married woman whom he immortalised in his verse as Lesbia. A monumental figure for poets from Ovid and Virgil onwards, his journey across youth and experience, from Verona to Rome, Bithynia to Lake Garda, is traced in Daisy Dunns brilliant portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jan 2017
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780007554324

About Daisy Dunn

Dr Daisy Dunn is a British writer based in London. She read Classics at Oxford followed by an MA in Art History at the Courtauld and a PhD in Classics funded by the AHRC at UCL where she also taught Latin. She also writes for the Daily Telegraph Spectator Standpoint Evening Standard History Today and Apollo. She frequently delivers lectures and public talks around London. She is a trustee of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers and sits on the board of Classical Association News.

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