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1	The Key more books like this by Benita Kane Jaro add to wishlist The secret life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, the greatest lyric poet of ancient Rome, is explored. Catullus was at all times a man in love, desperately, passionately, fatally. His poems embodied the spirit of a world shuddering on its foundations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice more books like this by Michelle Lovric add to wishlist This novel centers on the erotic poetry the Roman poet Catullus wrote to a notoriously heartless woman named Clodia in c.63 B.C. Years later, in the 15th century, the poems turn up in Venice, where a German printer named Wendolin von Speyer publishes them--and they set into a motion a sequence of events that involve secret loves, witchcraft, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Gaius Valerius Catul Poet Work more books like this by Jacob Rabinowitz (Translator), Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus add to wishlist see all copies from $12.06! new only from $98.00!
4	The Complete Poetry of Catullus more books like this by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus, David D Mulroy (Translator) add to wishlist In these translated poems, David Mulroy aims to bring to life the witty, poignant and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in Julius Caesar's Rome, reacting to real people and events in a city full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. These translations are accompanied by ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.47! \| first editions
5	When the Lamp is Shattered: Desire and Narrative in Catullus more books like this by Micaela Janan, Michaela Janan add to wishlist The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West. Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text ... see all copies from $3.26! new only from $3.26!
6	Poems more books like this by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus add to wishlist One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli - married, seductive and corrupt - charting ... see all copies from $2.41! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Catullus. Tibullus. Pervigilium Veneris more books like this by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus, Tibullus, F W Cornish (Translator) add to wishlist Catullus, of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men form Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. Tibullus, of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $23.49! \| SVS
8	A Catullus Workbook more books like this by Helena Dettmer add to wishlist see all copies from $6.21! new only from $38.69!
9	A Commentary on Catullus more books like this by Robinson Ellis add to wishlist This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from $29.99! new only from $29.99! \| SVS
10	Counting the Stars more books like this by Helen Dunmore add to wishlist In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret. Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionate poems. He is jealous of her husband, of her ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $45.23! \| first editions
11	Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood more books like this by David Wray add to wishlist This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the ... see all copies from $53.99! new only from $97.25!
12	The poems of Catullus. A bilingual edition. more books like this by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Peter Whigham add to wishlist see all copies from $3.95! first editions
13	The Catullan Revolution more books like this by Kenneth Quinn add to wishlist Examining the revolution wrought by Catullus in Latin poetry, this volume encapsulates the way in which principles of modern literary criticism could be applied to classical poetry, without ditching the sound philological scholarship of the classical tradition. In its day this book led the way in showing the philogically trained student how to be ... see all copies from $19.87! new only from $31.19!
14 view cover	Catullus & the Poetics of Roma more books like this by David Wray add to wishlist This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the ... see all copies from $44.63! new only from $44.63! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Poems of Catullus: A Teaching Text more books like this by Phyllis Young Forsyth add to wishlist 87.50 see all copies from $1.99! new only from $85.43!
16	Catullus and the Traditions of Ancient Poetry more books like this by Arthur L. Wheeler add to wishlist see all copies from $5.58! signed copies \| first editions
17	Catullus: The Complete Poems for American Readers more books like this by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Catullus more books like this by Julia Haig Gaisser add to wishlist Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles. ... see all copies from $81.96! new only from $81.96!
19 view cover	Companion to Catullus more books like this by Marilyn B Skinner (Editor) add to wishlist In this "Companion", international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. This book explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman 'lyric poets'. It provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems. ... see all copies from $155.08! new only from $155.08! \| SVS
20	Catullus: The Complete Poems for Modern Readers more books like this by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus add to wishlist see all copies from $12.15! first editions
21	Poems of Catullus more books like this by James Michie (Translator), R Rowland, Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00! new only from $28.96! \| first editions
22 view cover	Ritual and Desire: Catullus 61 and 62 and Other Ancient Documents on Wedding and Marriage more books like this by OLE Thomsen add to wishlist Catullus' two wedding poems contain important statements regarding the poet's personality, Roman sexual morality, attitudes to love and marriage, and the practice and psychology of ancient religion. This work subjects the two poems to detailed analysis, and yields new insights into the ritual drama enacted, the mythical and erotic dimensions, and ... see all copies from $28.50! new only from $35.00!
23	Roman lyric poetry by Catullus and Horace more books like this by Alexander Gordon McKay add to wishlist see all copies from $3.37! first editions
24 view cover	Catullus' Carmen 61 more books like this by Paolo Fedeli add to wishlist see all copies from $22.00! new only from $57.04! \| SVS
25 view cover	Catulls Epigramme Im Kontext Hellenistischer Dichtung by Cornelius Hartz add to wishlist The Roman poet Catullus is regarded as the founder of private love poetry. As a member of the group of poets known as a oeNeotericsa he had a particular influence on the literary life of Rome in the first century BC. To date, however, insufficient attention has been paid to his shortest poems, the epigrams, and neither their artistry hasbeen ... see all copies from $134.87! new only from $136.81!

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