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Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library)  
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus
ISBN: 0674990072
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Language Notes
Text: English, Latin (translation)
Original Language: Latin




Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library)

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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 hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honor of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature.

SYNOPSIS

Catullus translated by Cornish; Tibullus by Postgate; Pervigilium Veneris by Mackail.

     



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