Catullus’ love poems in contemporary English… the translations are extraordinary if you know the originals (like, how did he DO that??) but probably they’re pretty great anyway, because Catullus & Lesbia such is a compelling storyhttps://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/dirtbag-catullus …
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Is there a good synopsis of the story of Catullus and Lesbia somewhere? Wikipedia pages for them are pretty thin on details
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The poems are the best source —although they’re about what he was feeling much more than what happened. The wiki article on Clodius (Lesbia/Clodia’s brother and probable lover) gives a sense of how insane the social environment was.
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