Catullus’ Bedspread
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Catullus’ Bedspread

The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet

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Catullus’ Bedspread

The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet

About this book

A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's 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 Rome's 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 Rome's sparring titans – Pompey, Crassus and his father's 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 Dunn's brilliant portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history.

Information

Publisher
William Collins
Year
2016
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9780007554348
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

INDEX

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Achilles 156, 164, 192, 280
Acme 235
Adige River 16
Adriatic 132, 177
Aedituus, Valerius 5, 275, 278
Aegean 53, 132, 134, 150, 153, 177
Aeneas 161, 287
Aeneid (Virgil) 94, 147, 161
Aeschylus 157, 284, 287
Aetia (Callimachus) 54, 124
Afranius, Lucius 63, 90
Africa 108, 171
Ahenobarbus, Lucius Domitius 114
Ajax 129, 284
Alban Mount (Mount Cave nr Rome) 192
Albania 117, 273
Alexander the Great 8, 37–8, 81, 136, 150, 176, 278
Alexandria 53, 124, 124–5
Alfonso I d’Este, 3rd Duke of Ferrara 242
Allius 66, 128, 284
Alps 16, 178, 233
Amastris (place) 176
Amastris, Queen 176
Ameana 214, 292
Annales (Ennius) 50
Annals of the Gallic War (Furius Bibaculus) 117
Antimachus 55
Antioch 34
Anubis 177
Apollo 54, 177
Apollonius of Rhodes 52, 53, 150, 152, 153, 155, 161, 163, 286
Appian Way 10, 31, 240
Apulia 275
Aquileia 273
Arabia 273
Aratus 146, 285
Archias 75
Archilochus 109
Arete (wife of Virgil) 147
Argiletum 23
Argo 153, 155, 159, 164, 176–7, 200, 236, 287
Argonautica (Apollonius) 53–4, 150, 155, 161
Ariadne 128, 135, 160, 161–4, 173, 200, 243, 294
Armenia 273
Arrius 91, 92, 114, 228, 282
Ars Amatoria (Ovid) 294
Artemis 177
Arval Brethren 241
Ascanian Lake 138
Asia 3, 8, 75, 93, 122, 129, 132, 153, 169, 173, 233, 274, 287
Asia Minor 215
Asicius, Publius 289
Athens 9, 157
Atratinus 197
Atticus 64–5, 117, 279, 280, 281
Attis 172–4
Aufillenus 51
Augustus, Emperor (formerly Octavian) 61, 76, 164, 179, 240
Aurelius 74, 78, 80, 86–7, 103
Aurunculeia, Junia 100
Bacchus 135, 160, 163
Bacchus and Ariadne (Titian) 294
Baelo Claudia 37
Baetica 37, 143
Baiae 182–3, 198, 230, 288
Balkans 97
Ballard, Robert 286
Battus, King 75
Bay of Naples 288
bedspread poem see Poems, Poem no.64
Belgium 117
Bellum Gallicum (Furius) 292
Berenice II, Queen 124–5, 129, 163–4, 283
Bestia, Lucius Calpurnius 196, 289
Bibaculus, Marcus Furius 220, 280, 291
believes Valerius Cato responsible for establishing the poets 278
Catullus’ aggressive jibes at 78, 86, 87
composes poems on the Gallic War 117, 211, 217
considered disreputable chancer 86
identification 281
on losing one’s memory 88, 282
taunts Catullus 74, 80, 103
Bibulus, Marcus Calpurnius 93–4, 113
Bithynia, Bithynians 9, 12, 40, 67, 93, 130, 132, 134, 137–9, 141, 142, 145–6, 153, 178, 185, 192, 211, 220, 273
Black Sea 2, 8, 9, 12, 16, 130, 141–2, 145–6, 150, 152, 153, 173, 174, 176, 177, 200, 273, 286
Bona Dea 33–6, 64, 190, 240
Bosporus 153
Brenner Pass 273
Brescia see Brixia
Britain, Britons 17, 211, 214, 215, 216–17, 228, 230, 233, 234, 290
Brittany 215
Brixia (Brescia) 17, 47, 178, 273
Brutus, Marcus Junius 272
Burebista, King 97
Butler, Samuel 288
Byron,...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Praise
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Maps
  8. Author’s Note
  9. Timeline
  10. Prologue
  11. I: In search of Catullus
  12. II: The house on the Palatine Hill
  13. III: An elegant new little book
  14. IV: Sparrow
  15. V: The rumours of our elders
  16. VI: The power of three
  17. VII: I hate and I love
  18. VIII: Farewell
  19. IX: A sea of mackerel
  20. X: Canvas
  21. XI: The boxwood Argo
  22. XII: Godly rumbling
  23. XIII: The Roman stage
  24. XIV: A flower on the edge of the meadow
  25. Epilogue
  26. Picture Section
  27. Appendix: Poem 64 – Catullus’ Bedspread Poem
  28. Note on Currency and Measures
  29. Notes
  30. Select Bibliography
  31. List of Illustrations
  32. Index
  33. Acknowledgements
  34. About the Author
  35. About the Publisher

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