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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year a box with poetry arrived on my desk. Ever since I have wanted to write about the contents of the box. But because I'm a judge for the National Book Critics Circle prize and the poems in the ...

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 ...

Quite an extraordinary chapter in the already extraordinary story of Mark Lowe and Jordan Wimmer. For those who haven't been following the lurid details, this is an ongoing employment tribunal case at ...

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 end of winter has produced mountains of poetry, but two thousand years' worth has not bettered Catullus's lyrical evocation of this most poetic of seasons. Here in North Carolina, the sap is ...

The Orange Prize winner Helen Dunmore has many guises: poet, novelist, children's author. In this new work of historical fiction she attempts to merge disciplines, writing a novel about a poet. By ...