Was it something to do with blow jobs? Incredulous, I looked again at page 82 of my Latin textbook, then over to the entry in the dictionary; then once more at 82. From the bottom of the page, the ...

The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should. The lure of these dark arts is strong for any scholar who approaches ...

A crisp new rendering of the Roman poet’s poems underlines how difficult it is to fully relate all his complexities and contradictions. Stefan Bakałowicz’s Roman poet Catullus reading to his friends ...

When you hear about the Classics with a capital "C," you might imagine ancient men sculpted out of white marble, or epic poems being inscribed on great scrolls of parchment. You probably think of war ...

Any student of Latin lyric poetry will tell you that Catullus’ poems get pretty raunchy, obsessed with genitalia, semen, and sex in general. But one of his poems is so vulgar that an uncensored modern ...

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do this. I don’t know, but I feel it happening and am tortured.’ Catullus’s language is as plain as my translation but his analysis is acute: he knows exactly ...

The Roman poet Catullus' affair with his mistress Lesbia may not be the greatest love story in the history of Western literature. But it's surely the most human. The 25 poems that the youthful ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Catullus is every teenager’s favourite Roman poet. He is the one WB Yeats imagined in “The Scholars”, shaming the ...