As it turned out, I wasn’t the only one. “In Catullus we have, in a sense, not one poet but two,” the editors of “Two Centuries” acknowledged. Most scholars would agree. On the one hand ...

Stefan Bakałowicz’s Roman poet Catullus reading to his friends (1885). Everything we know about Catullus has come to scholars by happenstance. His slim collection of poems, composed in the mid ...

The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should. The lure of these dark arts is strong for any scholar who approaches ...

You probably don't think about napkins. Or erotically charged call out poetry. The poems of Catullus can be roughly grouped into four categories: poems to and about his friends, poems offering ...

Daisy Dunn's Catullus's Bedspread: the Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet, alongside her new translations of his poetry, offer a rollicking good read - as long as they're not taken too much at face value ...

In poem 85, the famous poet Catullus laments, “Odi et amo, quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.” This famous epigram, revered over centuries, was composed ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

“Ōdī et amō,” the Roman poet Catullus wrote of his lover Lesbia about 2,000 years ago. “I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happening and I am ...