Cooking with Martial and Catullus by Valerie Stivers
In Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words series, she cooks up recipes drawn from the works of various writers. In ancient Rome, poetry was pop culture, and being a poet was a viable living of sorts—you attached yourself to a patron …
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An analysis of Catullus 46 - a delightful 1st century BC Latin poem about the arrival of spring and the excitement of travel.
If your Latin is a bit rusty or you happen to be a Latin learner, below the poem you’ll find a detailed, verse-by-verse word analysis, along with an English translation.
At the very end of the post there are a few links to additional resources on Catullus, and the context of this particular poem.
https://grammaticus.blog/2025/04/30/catullus-46/
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Why Catullus Continues to Seduce Us
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“Catullus Invites His Friend to Dinner”
Come join me, friend. Come be my guest!
Enjoy the finest and the best
Of gourmet food, of wit and wine
And lovely ladies. Come to dine:
I’ll crack a bottle – oil of rose –
To make you wish you were a nose.
You bring the rest… For I can’t brag
Of more than cobwebs in my moneybag.
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕: "𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒍: '𝑻𝒐 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒚 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔' 𝑷𝒕. 𝟐" --
What do we do with--how do we read--can we make us of--a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?
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okay wait no. i don't have time for a whole thread. also this is a recollection from a presentation i did in 2017.
but basically catullus is a simp for "lesbia". she's a lesbian as in she's from the island of lesbos (not wlw or not in a way that is relevant for the discussion) (cf. catullus 5, 'ode to lesbia').
#sappho's fragment 31 is her most famous and has been translated and adapted many times throughout history. if you can read french, check "l'égal des dieux" (allia editions) which is a collection of some of these adaptations and translations. https://www.editions-allia.com/fr/livre/7/egal-des-dieux-l
in this poem we assume that the first person poetic voice is "sappho" and the adressee/love interest is a woman (we can infer from the use of participles which are marked for the feminine gender in the greek text).
and one of these first translations/adaptations is catullus 51. and he uses it a self insert for him and lesbia (who like sappho comes from lesbos - so you see the connection he made there). and yeah he mentions himself 'catullus' as well as 'lesbia' straight washing the poem.
and according to snyder this version was influential in the heterosexual readings of the poem throughout history. (yes even sappho, THE sappho has been a victim of galpal-ing)
so yeah i wrote this bad toot just to call out #catullus after praising him for #catullus16.
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