Catullus – poet antic modern și modernist
Catullus – Ancient Modern and Modernist Poet

Summary/Abstract: Poet One of the most popular surviving poets of classical antiquity, Gaius Valerius Catullus, seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. He was among the so-called poetae novi of the 1st century BC, the century in which the gallant life, of luxury and parties, was born in Roman society, but combined with literary concerns. The variety of Catullus' simple, direct, spontaneous, profoundly modern lines made him a forerunner of medieval and Renaissance poetry, and starting with the 19th century, scholarly exegesis has turned passionately to his work. Our study attempts to explore the astonishing depths of the poet reflected in poetry that had a profound effect on later Latin poetry and beyond.

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