O filth, O beastliness
Elspeth Barker
- Catullus by Charles Martin
Yale, 197 pp, £22.50, July 1992, ISBN 0 300 05199 9
With characteristic perversity, Gaius Valerius Catullus has left us a grand profusion of vivid glimpses into his life, but no overall account. The known facts are few. He was born in 84 BC to a wealthy family in Verona. At the age of fourteen or so he moved to Rome to further his education; there he remained. Although he made regular visits to his family’s properties in the north, the city was his element:
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Vol. 14 No. 19 · 8 October 1992 » Elspeth Barker » O filth, O beastliness
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