Three Roman poets, Plautus, Catullus, Ovid, their lives, times and works

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[F A Wright; Titus Maccius Plautus; Gaius Valerius Catullus; Ovid]. Catullus, in full Gaius Valerius Catullus, (born c. 84 bce, Verona, Cisalpine Gaul—died c. 54 bce, Rome), Roman poet whose expressions of love and hatred are generally considered the finest lyric poetry of ancient 25 of his poems he speaks of his love for a woman he calls Lesbia, whose identity is uncertain.

Other poems by Catullus are scurrilous outbursts of contempt or hatred for. The Lives, Times and Works of Three Roman Poets. PERCY HUTCHISON. Sept. 11, THAT these three Latin poets, Plautus in the third century B. C., Ovid in the first.

are typically. Catullus was a short-lived but very influential Roman lyric poet whose surviving works are still read widely, being among the most accessible Latin poems for the modern reader. Although never considered one of the canonical school authors, Catullus’ poems were widely appreciated by other poets, and he greatly influenced other Roman poets such Ratings: Ovid was a prolific Roman poet, straddling the Golden and Silver Ages of Latin literature, who wrote about love, seduction and mythological is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Vergil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature.

His poetry, especially the epic poem “Metamorphoses”, was much imitated Ratings: The Latin poet Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus, about BCE) wrote during the period of the late Roman Republic and had an important influence on the later Roman poets Ovid, Virgil, and Horace as well as on subsequent poets for hundreds of years/5.

The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus has had two lives. In Rome, Catullus and his generation, the “new poets,” played an essential role in the development of Augustan poetry. They helped to create the possibility that one might be a poet by profession. They brought to Rome the learned and self-conscious style of Hellenistic poetry, and they helped to create and explore those interests in.

Plautus, (born c. bce, Sarsina, Umbria?[Italy]—died bce), great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language. Life. Little is known for certain about the life and personality of Plautus, who ranks with Terence as one of the two great Roman comic dramatists.

His work, moreover, presents scholars with a. Book 3 in 14 poems focuses on Ovid's life in Tomis. The opening poem describes his book's arrival in Rome to find Ovid's works banned.

Po 12, and 13 focus on the seasons spent in Tomis, 9 on the origins of the place, and 2, 3, and 11 his emotional distress and longing for home. The final poem is again an apology for his work. Gaius Valerius Catullus (/ k ə ˈ t ʌ l ə s / kə-TUL-əs, Latin: [kaˈtʊllʊs]; c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes.

His surviving works are still read widely and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. Catullus's poems were widely.

Catullus is the predecessor in Roman elegy for poets like Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. Catullus's focus in his poetry is on himself, the male lover.

He writes obsessively about Lesbia; however she is just an object to him. In his writing, the male lover is the important character, and Lesbia is part of his theatrical passion.

Catullus is the most approachable of Roman poets and the most human. His lyrics teem like the streets of a red-light district with heartbroken lovers, Author: Jad Adams. Catullus wrote his poems and epigrams of personal life during the late Roman Republic, and they survive in an anthology of more than a hundred items.

Many are caustic, satirical, and erotic, often lampooning well-known characters of the day including Julius Caesar and his friends. Others are tender, solemn, and graceful. Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC ca. 54 BC) was one of the most influential Roman poets of the 1st century BC.

His work is still widely studied, and his perennial influence continues to be seen in poetry and other forms of by: Roman literature, written in the Latin language, remains an enduring legacy of the culture of ancient of the earliest extant works are historical epics telling of the early military history of Rome, followed (as the Republic expanded) by poetry, comedies, histories and tragedies.

Latin literature drew heavily on the traditions of other cultures, particularly the more matured. Roman writers were heavily influenced by Greek literature.

Early Latin writers translated and adapted Greek forms for Roman audiences, beginning after the 1st Punic War () with Livius Andronicus (. B.C.) whose works have not survived.

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Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet of the 1st century surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. Catullus invented the “angry love poem.” He was imitated by Tibullus, Propertius, Horace and Ovid, as well as Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick in English.

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