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493 Catullus - The Poet of Love and Hate

The History of Literature

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What We Know About Catalas's Life

Palms crying out with hunger like graffiti. Cries in the night will get to one in particular is just two lines. They're scrawled and they're not in marble. And then we'll hear how catalas's poetry and his life stood out to a historian writing from the early imperial era, looking back at what things were like in the late Roman Republic.

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