493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate
The History of Literature
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You Want to Know What Love Is? Here You Go
LZ Granderson: Catullus was and is one of us, a modern sensibility in ancient Rome. He says the poet's poetry survived even before his actual poems were found. LZ: Virgil and Horace imitate him; Avid and other later poets revered him too. "Catullus was intimate, open, honest, broken-hearted, lusty, angry, bitter, sulking, and compassionate," he says.
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