Catullus
20th-century bust of Catullus on the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione.[1]
20th-century bust of Catullus on the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione.[1]
BornGaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC
Verona, Italy, Roman Republic
Diedc. 54 BC (age 29–30)
Rome
OccupationPoet
LanguageLatin
GenreLyric poetry

Gaius Valerius Catullus (Classical Latin: [ˈɡaːius waˈlɛrius kaˈtullus]; c. 84 – c. 54 BC), known as Catullus (kə-TUL-əs), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and their modern appeal.

Life

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Catullus's family, the Valerii Catulli, Gāius Valerius Catullus was born to a leading equestrian family of Verona, in Cisalpine Gaul. The social prominence of the Catullus family allowed the father of Gaius Valerius to entertain Julius Caesar when he was the Promagistrate (proconsul) of both Gallic provinces.[2] In a poem, Catullus describes his happy homecoming to the family villa at Sirmio, on Lake Garda, near Verona; he also owned a villa near the resort of Tibur (modern Tivoli).[2]

Catullus appears to have spent most of his young adult years in Rome. His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus, and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius (son of the orator and rival of Cicero) and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated a libellus of poems,[2] the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.[3] He appears to have been acquainted with the poet Marcus Furius Bibaculus. A number of prominent contemporaries appear in his poetry, including Cicero, Caesar and Pompey. According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.[4]

 
Catullus at Lesbia's by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

The "Lesbia" of his poems is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri, sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher, and wife to Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer (consul of 60 BC). In his poems Catullus describes several stages of their relationship: initial euphoria, doubts, separation, and his wrenching feelings of loss. Clodia had several other partners; "From the poems one can adduce no fewer than five lovers in addition to Catullus: Egnatius (poem 37), Gellius (poem 91), Quintius (poem 82), Rufus (poem 77), and Lesbius (poem 79)." There is also some question surrounding her husband's mysterious death in 59 BC: in his speech Pro Caelio Cicero hints that he may have been poisoned. However, a sensitive and passionate Catullus could not relinquish his flame for Clodia, regardless of her obvious indifference to his desire for a deep and permanent relationship. In his poems, Catullus wavers between devout, sweltering love and bitter, scornful insults that he directs at her blatant infidelity (as demonstrated in poems 11 and 58). His passion for her is unrelenting—yet it is unclear when exactly the couple split up for good. Catullus's poems about the relationship display striking depth and psychological insight.[5]

 
Bithynia within the Roman Empire

He spent the year from summer 57 to summer 56 BC in Bithynia on the staff of the commander Gaius Memmius. While in the East, he traveled to the Troad to perform rites at his brother's tomb, an event recorded in a moving poem (101).[2]

No ancient biography of Catullus has survived. His life has to be pieced together from scattered references to him in other ancient authors and from his poems. Thus it is uncertain when he was born and when he died. Jerome stated that he was born in 87 BC and died in Rome on his 30th year.[6] However, Catullus’ poems include references to events of 55 BC. Since the Roman consular fasti make it somewhat easy to confuse 87–57 BC with 84–54 BC, many scholars accept the dates 84 BC–54 BC,[2] supposing that his latest poems and the publication of his libellus coincided with the year of his death. Other authors suggest 52 or 51 BC as the year of the poet's death.[7] Though upon his elder brother's death Catullus lamented that their "whole house was buried along" with the deceased, the existence (and prominence) of Valerii Catulli is attested in the following centuries. T.P. Wiseman argues that after the brother's death Catullus could have married, and that, in this case, the later Valerii Catulli may have been his descendants.[8]

Poetry

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Catullus et in eum commentarius (1554)

Sources and organization

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Catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of 116 carmina (the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions), which can be divided into three parts according to their form: approximately sixty short poems in varying meters, called polymetra, nine longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams in elegiac couplets. Each of these three parts – approximately 860 (or more), 1136, and 330 lines respectively – would fit onto a single scroll.[9]

There is no scholarly consensus on whether Catullus himself arranged the order of the poems. The longer poems differ from the polymetra and the epigrams not only in length but also in their subjects: several of them are based on the theme of marriage. The longest (64) of 408 lines, contains two myths (the abandonment of Ariadne and the marriage of Peleus and Thetis), one story included inside the other.

The polymetra and the epigrams can be divided into four major thematic groups (ignoring a rather large number of poems that elude such categorization):

  • poems to and about his friends (e.g., an invitation like poem 13).
  • erotic poems: some of them about his attraction for a boy named Juventius, but others about women, especially about one he calls "Lesbia" (which served as a false name for his married girlfriend, Clodia, source and inspiration of many of his poems).
  • invectives: often rude and sometimes downright obscene poems targeted at friends-turned-traitors (e.g., poem 16), other lovers of Lesbia, well-known poets, and politicians (e.g., Julius Caesar and Cicero).
  • condolences: some poems of Catullus are solemn in nature. 96 comforts a friend in the death of a loved one; several others, most famously 101, lament the death of his brother.

Above all other qualities, Catullus seems to have valued venustas, or charm, in his acquaintances, a theme which he explores in a number of his poems.

Intellectual influences

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Lesbia, 1878 painting by John Reinhard Weguelin inspired by the poems of Catullus

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer. Cicero called these local innovators neoteroi (νεώτεροι) or "moderns" (in Latin poetae novi or 'new poets'), in that they cast off the heroic model handed down from Ennius in order to strike new ground and ring a contemporary note. Catullus and Callimachus did not describe the feats of ancient heroes and gods (except perhaps in re-evaluating and predominantly artistic circumstances, e.g. poem 64), focusing instead on small-scale personal themes. Although these poems sometimes seem quite superficial and their subjects often are mere everyday concerns, they are accomplished works of art. Catullus described his work as expolitum, or polished, to show that the language he used was very carefully and artistically composed.

Catullus was also an admirer of Sappho, a female poet of the seventh century BC. Catullus 51 partly translates, partly imitates, and transforms Sappho 31. Some hypothesize that 61 and 62 were perhaps inspired by lost works of Sappho but this is purely speculative. Both of the latter are epithalamia, a form of laudatory or erotic wedding-poetry that Sappho was famous for. Catullus twice used a meter that Sappho was known for, called the Sapphic stanza, in poems 11 and 51, perhaps prompting his successor Horace's interest in the form.

Catullus, as was common to his era, was greatly influenced by stories from Greek and Roman myth. His longer poems—such as 63, 64, 65, 66, and 68—allude to mythology in various ways. Some stories he refers to are the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the departure of the Argonauts, Theseus and the Minotaur, Ariadne's abandonment, Tereus and Procne, as well as Protesilaus and Laodamia.

Style

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Catullus wrote in many different meters including hendecasyllabic verse and elegiac couplets (common in love poetry). A great part of his poetry shows strong and occasionally wild emotions, especially in regard to Lesbia (e.g., poems 5 and 7). His love poems are very emotional and ardent, and are relatable to this day. Catullus describes his Lesbia as having multiple suitors and often showing little affection towards him. He also demonstrates a great sense of humour such as in Catullus 13.

Legacy

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Ancient influence

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Horace was influenced by Catullus's language, themes, and style. He often quotes words or phrases from Catullus, employing them in similar contexts. The second most common meter used in Horace's poetry, the Sapphic, was used earlier in Catullus 11 and 51. Situations and topics present in Catullus's poems are echoed in Horace's.[10]

Catullus is never recognized as a predecessor by Horace. In Odes 3.30, Horace writes that he was the first (though some translate this as "chief") to bring Aeolian verse into Latin, which includes Sapphic meter. Later in Epistles 1.19, he makes a similar claim, where he is more specific in his accomplishments, not making any reference to Sappho. It has been suggested that Horace neglected Catullus's Sapphic poems because there were only two.[10] More generally, Horace may not have recognized Catullus because they wrote in different meters: Quintilian identifies Catullus as a writer of iambic verse, and Horace as a writer of lyric. Although this may seem superficial, ancient authors considered meter closely related to genre.[11] Horace also may not have recognized Catullus due to pride, or simply because he felt that the allusions he made were recognition enough.[10]

While Horace does not recognize Catullus as a predecessor, he mentions Catullus once in Satires 1.10. In this poem, he mocks the imitators of Catullus and his friend Calvus, another member of the poetae novae.[11] This has been interpreted as a compliment to Catullus, who would not have wanted imitators anyway.[10][11] Some also consider it a way for Horace to distance himself from Catullus.[12]

While Horace did take much from Catullus, he was less passionate and turned Catullus's themes into more universal expressions.[13] Horace also was more strict in his meter, with less of a spontaneous feeling to his poetry.[10]

Catullus also influenced Vergil's writing, especially Eclogue 4. Both authors relate personal occurrences to events of greater significance. Vergil takes a more optimistic approach to Catullus's themes, sometimes inverting a negative chronological trend to a positive one.[14] This reworking of Catullus's themes may also be ironic, suggesting that Vergil's poems may not be as optimistic as they seem.[15]

Catullus's influence on Vergil is mainly apparent in the Eclogues and the Aeneid, although there are still some allusions in the Georgics. The Aeneid is primarily influenced by Catullus 11, 64, 66, and 101. In particular, Catullus 66 contains a line which is almost identical to a line in the sixth book of the Aeneid. This line is puzzling, however, because it is quoted in an entirely different context: Catullus's poem is humorous, while the part of the Aeneid where it occurs is solemn. Some have suggested that Virgil's allusion is merely incidental, while others have found serious themes echoed from Catullus 66. It has also been identified as part of a larger reference to Catullus 66 in Aeneid 6.[15]

Modern reception

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Musical settings

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The Hungarian born British composer Matyas Seiber set poem 31 for unaccompanied mixed chorus Sirmio in 1957.[citation needed] The American composer Ned Rorem set Catullus 101 to music for voice and piano; the song, "Catullus: On the Burial of His Brother", was originally published in 1969.[citation needed]

Catullus Dreams (2011) is a song cycle by David Glaser set to texts of Catullus, scored for soprano and eight instruments; it premiered at Symphony Space in New York by soprano Linda Larson and Sequitur Ensemble.[16] Carmina Catulli is a song cycle arranged from 17 of Catullus's poems by American composer Michael Linton. The cycle was recorded in December 2013 and premiered at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in March 2014 by French baritone Edwin Crossley-Mercer and pianist Jason Paul Peterson.[17][18][19]

Thomas Campion also wrote a lute-song entitled "My Sweetest Lesbia" dating from 1601[20] using his own translation of the first six lines of Catullus 5 followed by two verses of his own;[21] the translation by Richard Crashaw was set to music[22] in a four-part glee by Samuel Webbe Jr.[citation needed] It was also set to music,[when?][23] in a three-part glee by John Stafford Smith.[citation needed]

Catullus 5, the love poem Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus, in the translation by Ben Jonson, was set to music in 1606, (lute accompanied song) by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.[24][25] Dutch composer Bertha Tideman-Wijers used Catullus's text for her composition Variations on Valerius "Where that one already turns or turns."[when?][26] The Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson set Catullus 85 to music; entitled Odi Et Amo, the song is found on Jóhannsson's album Englabörn, and is sung through a vocoder, and the music is played by a string quartet and piano.[when?][citation needed] Catulli Carmina is a cantata by Carl Orff dating from 1943 that sets texts from Catullus to music.[27] Finnish jazz singer Reine Rimón has recorded poems of Catullus set to standard jazz tunes.[when?][citation needed]

Cultural depictions

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  • The 1888 play Lesbia by Richard Davey depicts the relationship between Catullus and Lesbia, based on incidents from Catullus's poems.[28][29]
  • Catullus was the main protagonist of the historical novel Farewell, Catullus (1953) by Pierson Dixon. The novel shows the corruption of Roman society.[30][31]
  • Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita makes multiple explicit and implicit allusions to Catullus' work.[32]
  • W. G. Hardy's novel The City of Libertines (1957) tells the fictionalized story of Catullus and a love affair during the time of Julius Caesar. The Financial Post described the book as "an authentic story of an absorbing era".[33]
  • A poem by Catullus is being recited to Cleopatra in the eponymous 1963 film when Julius Caesar comes to visit her; they talk about him (Cleopatra: 'Catullus doesn't approve of you. Why haven't you had him killed?' Caesar: 'Because I approve of him.') and Caesar then recites other poems by him.
  • The American poet Louis Zukofsky in 1969 wrote a set of homophonic translations of Catullus that attempted in English to replicate the sound as primary emphasis, rather than the more common emphasis on sense of the originals (although the relationship between sound and sense there is often misrepresented and has been clarified by careful study); his Catullus versions have had extensive influence on contemporary innovative poetry and homophonic translation, including the work of poets Robert Duncan, Robert Kelly, and Charles Bernstein.
  • Catullus is the protagonist of Tom Holland's 1995 novel Attis.
  • Catullus appears in Steven Saylor's 1995 novel The Venus Throw as the embittered ex-lover of Clodia, sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher, whom he calls Lesbia.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ The bust was commissioned in 1935 by Sirmione's mayor, Luigi Trojani, and produced by the Milanese foundry Clodoveo Barzaghi with the assistance of the sculptor Villarubbia Norri (N. Criniti & M. Arduino (eds.), Catullo e Sirmione. Società e cultura della Cisalpina alle soglie dell'impero (Brescia: Grafo, 1994), p. 4).
  2. ^ a b c d e "Gaius Valerius Catullus". Encyclopedia of World Biography. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  3. ^ M. Skinner, "Authorial Arrangement of the Collection", pp. 46–48, in: A Companion to Catullus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
  4. ^ Suetonius Divus Iulius 73".
  5. ^ Howe, Quincy Jr. (1970). Introduction to Catullus, The Complete Poems for American Readers. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. pp. vii to xvii.
  6. ^ Catullus (2005). The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition. Translated by Green, Peter. University of California Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780520242647.
  7. ^ M. Skinner, "Introduction", p.3, in: A Companion to Catullus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
  8. ^ T.P. Wiseman, "The Valerii Catulli of Verona", in: M. Skinner, ed., A Companion to Catullus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
  9. ^ Dettmer (1997), p. 2. A single scroll usually contained between 800 and 1100 verses.
  10. ^ a b c d e McNeill 2007
  11. ^ a b c Putnam 2006, pp. 1-10
  12. ^ Gale 2021
  13. ^ Putnam 2006, pp. 141-144
  14. ^ Hardie 2012
  15. ^ a b Napa 2007
  16. ^ "Glaser's Song Cycle To Receive World Premiere At Symphony Space". Yeshiva University. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  17. ^ McMurtry, Chris (19 August 2014). "New Release: Linton: Carmina Catulli". RefinersFire. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  18. ^ "LINTON: Carmina Catulli". www.operanews.com.
  19. ^ "Priape, Lesbie, Diane et caetera - Forum Opéra". www.forumopera.com.
  20. ^ "My Sweetest Lesbia | For Better For Verse". Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  21. ^ Rumens, Carol (22 March 2010). "Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  22. ^ "Come and let us live : Samuel Webbe Jr. (c. 1770–1843) : Music score" (PDF). Cpdl.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  23. ^ "Let us, my Lesbia, live and love : John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) : Music score" (PDF). Cpdl.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  24. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  25. ^ Cunningham, J. (ed.) (2015) The Cambridge edition of the Works of Ben Jonson: Music Edition, P.4.1.
  26. ^ "ccm :: Tideman Wijers, Bertha Tideman Wijers". composers-classical-music.com. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  27. ^ Ball, Timothy (3 July 2003). "Orff's Trionfi - Jochum (DG)". The Classical Source. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  28. ^ "Our Play-Box: Lesbia". The Theatre. 1 November 1888. pp. 256–257.
  29. ^ "Amusements: Lesbia". The New York Times. 9 October 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ Dixon, Pierson (1954). Farewell, Catullus – via Biblio.com.
  31. ^ Reine Rimón and her Hot Papas jazz band; Gregg Stafford; Tuomo Pekkanen; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Variationes iazzicae Catullianae (in Latin), retrieved 7 October 2013
  32. ^ Dyer, Gary R. (13 August 1988). "Humbert Humbert's Use of Catullus 58 in Lolita". Twentieth Century Literature. 34 (1): 1–15. doi:10.2307/441433. JSTOR 441433.
  33. ^ "The City of Libertines by W. G. Hardy". Winnipeg Free Press. Winnipeg, Manitoba. 7 December 1957. p. 38. 

Sources

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  • Gale, Monica R. (2021) "Catullus and Augustan poetry" in Du Quaesnay, Ian and Woodman, Tony (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Catullus. Cambridge University Press, pp. 219-240
  • Hardie, Philip (2012) "Virgil's Catullan plots" in Du Quaesnay, Ian and Woodman, Tony (eds.). Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers. Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-238
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  • Napa, Christopher (2007). "Catullus and Vergil" in Skinner, Marilyn B. (ed.) A Companion to Catullus. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 377-398
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Further reading

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  • Balme, M.; Morwood, J (1997). Oxford Latin Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Balmer, J. (2004). Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate. Hexham: Bloodaxe.
  • Barrett, A. A. (1972). "Catullus 52 and the Consulship of Vatinius". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 103: 23–38. doi:10.2307/2935964. JSTOR 2935964.
  • Barwick, K. (1958). "Zyklen bei Martial und in den kleinen Gedichten des Catull". Philologus. 102 (1–2): 284–318. doi:10.1524/phil.1958.102.12.284. S2CID 164713202.
  • Calinski, T. (2021). Catull in Bild und Ton - Untersuchungen zur Catull-Rezeption in Malerei und Komposition. Darmstadt: WBG Academic
  • Claes, P. (2002). Concatenatio Catulliana, A New Reading of the Carmina. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben
  • Clarke, Jacqueline (2006). "Bridal Songs: Catullan Epithalamia and Prudentius Peristephanon 3". Antichthon. 40: 89–103. doi:10.1017/S0066477400001672. S2CID 142365904.
  • Coleman, K.M. (1981). "The persona of Catullus' Phaselus". Greece & Rome. N.S. 28: 68–72. doi:10.1017/s0017383500033507. S2CID 162206320.
  • Dettmer, Helena (1997). Love by the Numbers: Form and the Meaning in the poetry of Catullus. Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Deuling, Judy (2006). "Catullus 17 and 67, and the Catullan Construct". Antichthon. 40: 1–9. doi:10.1017/S0066477400001611. S2CID 145585439.
  • Dorey, T.A. (1959). "The Aurelii and the Furii". Proceedings of the African Classical Associations. 2: 9–10.
  • Duhigg, J. (1971). "The Elegiac Metre of Catullus". Antichthon. 5: 57–67. doi:10.1017/S0066477400004111. S2CID 148299423.
  • Ellis, R. (1889). A Commentary on Catullus. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Ferguson, J. (1963). "Catullus and Martial". Proceedings of the African Classical Associations. 6: 3–15.
  • Ferguson, J. (1988). Catullus. Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics. Vol. 20. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Ferrero, L. (1955). Interpretazione di Catullo (in Italian). Torino: Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier.
  • Fitzgerald, W. (1995). Catullan Provocations; Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Fletcher, G.B.A. (1967). "Catulliana". Latomus. 26: 104–106.
  • Fletcher, G.B.A. (1991). "Further Catulliana". Latomus. 50: 92–93.
  • Fordyce, C.J. (1961). Catullus, A Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gaisser, Julia Haig (1993). Catullus And His Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Greene, Ellen (2006). "Catullus, Caesar and the Roman Masculine Identity". Antichthon. 40: 49–64. doi:10.1017/S0066477400001659. S2CID 140827803.
  • Hallett, Judith (2006). "Catullus and Horace on Roman Women Poets". Antichthon. 40: 65–88. doi:10.1017/S0066477400001660. S2CID 140917675.
  • Harrington, Karl Pomeroy (1963). Catullus and His Influence. New York: Cooper Square Publishers.
  • Havelock, E.A. (1939). The Lyric Genius of Catullus. Oxford: B. Blackwell.
  • Hild, Christian (2013). Liebesgedichte als Wagnis. Emotionen und generationelle Prozesse in Catulls Lesbiagedichten. St. Ingbert: Röhrig. ISBN 978-3-86110-517-6.
  • Jackson, Anna (2006). "Catullus in the Playground". Antichthon. 40: 104–116. doi:10.1017/S0066477400001684. S2CID 142720674.
  • Kaggelaris, N. (2015), "Wedding Cry: Sappho (Fr. 109 LP, Fr. 104(a) LP)- Catullus (c. 62. 20-5)- modern greek folk songs" [in Greek] in Avdikos, E.- Koziou-Kolofotia, B. (ed.) Modern Greek folk songs and history, Karditsa, pp. 260–70 [1]
  • Kidd, D.A. (1970). "Some Problems in Catullus LXVI". Antichthon. 4: 38–49. doi:10.1017/S0066477400004007. S2CID 147666304.
  • Kokoszkiewicz, Konrad W. (2004). "Et futura panda sive de Catulli carmine sexto corrigendo". Hermes. 32: 125–128.
  • Kroll, Wilhelm (1929). C. Valerius Catullus (in German). Leipzig: B.G. Teubner.
  • Maas, Paul (1942). "The Chronology of the Poems of Catullus". Classical Quarterly. 36 (1–2): 79–82. doi:10.1017/s0009838800024605. S2CID 170577777.
  • Martin, Charles (1992). Catullus. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. ISBN 0-300-05199-9.
  • Munro, H.A.J. (1878). Criticisms and Elucidations of Catullus. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and co.
  • Newman, John Kevin (1990). Roman Catullus and the Modification of the Alexandrian Sensibility. Hildesheim: Weidmann.
  • Quinn, Kenneth (1959). The Catullan Revolution. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  • Quinn, Kenneth (1973). Catullus: The Poems (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan.
  • Radici Colace, P., Il poeta si diverte. Orazio, Catullo e due esempi di poesia non seria, Giornale Italiano di Filologia XVI [XXXVII] 1, 1985, pp. 53–71.
  • Radici Colace, P., Parodie catulliane, ovvero "quando il poeta si diverte", Giornale Italiano di Filologia, XXXIX - 1, 1987, 39-57.
  • Radici Colace, P., Tra ripetizione, struttura e ri-uso: il C. 30 di Catullo, in Atti 175° anniversario Liceo Ginnasio Statale "T. Campanella", Reggio Calabria 1989, 137-142.
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  • Thomson, Douglas Ferguson Scott (1997). Catullus: Edited with a Textual and Interpretative Commentary. Phoenix. Vol. 34: suppl. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-0676-0.
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