Catullus

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Latin-language writer Roman poet ancient Roman historical person lyric poet

Catullus was a Roman lyric poet of the late Republic whose passionate, personal verses—especially his love poems to "Lesbia"—profoundly shaped later Latin poetry.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Catullus canonical	5
Catulli Carmina	1
Catullus 64	1
Catullus, Carmina 64	1
Gaius Valerius Catullus	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Latin-language writer ⓘ Roman poet ⓘ ancient Roman ⓘ historical person ⓘ lyric poet ⓘ
activeIn	1st century BC Latin literature ⓘ
approximateNumberOfSurvivingPoems	116 ⓘ
associatedWith	Lesbia ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Roman Republic ⓘ
dateOfBirth	circa 84 BC ⓘ
dateOfDeath	circa 54 BC ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Roman ⓘ
familyName	Valerius ⓘ
fullName	Catullus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Gaius Valerius Catullus
genre	epigram ⓘ invective poetry ⓘ love poetry ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ
givenName	Gaius ⓘ
hasWork	Poem 101 (Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus) ⓘ Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) ⓘ Poem 51 (Ille mi par esse deo videtur) ⓘ Poem 7 (Quaeris quot mihi basiationes) ⓘ Poem 8 (Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire) ⓘ Poem 85 (Odi et amo) ⓘ
influenced	Horace ⓘ Ovid ⓘ Propertius ⓘ Tibullus ⓘ later Latin love elegy ⓘ
influencedBy	Callimachus ⓘ Hellenistic poetry ⓘ Sappho ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Latin ⓘ
literaryCharacter	Lesbia ⓘ
metricalFormsUsed	elegiac couplet ⓘ glyconic meter ⓘ hendecasyllabic verse ⓘ
movement	Neoteric poetry ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Latin ⓘ
notableFor	highly personal poetry ⓘ innovative use of colloquial Latin ⓘ love poems to Lesbia ⓘ
notableWork	Carmina ⓘ
occupation	poet ⓘ
period	Late Roman Republic ⓘ surface form: late Roman Republic
placeOfBirth	Cisalpine Gaul ⓘ Verona ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Rome ⓘ
possibleRealIdentityOfLesbia	Clodia Metelli ⓘ
wroteAbout	betrayal ⓘ friendship ⓘ love ⓘ political figures of his time ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ovid → influencedBy → Catullus ⓘ

Sappho → influenced → Catullus ⓘ

Callimachus → influenced → Catullus ⓘ

Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian → basedOn → Catullus ⓘ

subject surface form: Bacchus and Ariadne

this entity surface form: Catullus 64

Orff Carmina Burana → followedBy → Catullus ⓘ

subject surface form: Carmina Burana

this entity surface form: Catulli Carmina

Catullus → fullName → Catullus self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Gaius Valerius Catullus

Propertius → influencedBy → Catullus ⓘ

Saturnalia → documentedBy → Catullus ⓘ

Bacchus and Ariadne → influencedBy → Catullus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catullus, Carmina 64