Catullus (In Our Time)
60 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catullus (c84-c54 BC) who wrote some of the most sublime poetry in the late Roman Republic, and some of the most obscene. He found a new way to write about love, in poems to the mysterious Lesbia, married and elusive, and he influenced Virgil and Ovid and others, yet his explicit poems were to blight his reputation for a thous
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Around 60 BCE
- Reign of Augustus (27 BCE)
- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Saint Paul (5)
- Reign of Tiberius (14)
- Roman Empire (27 BCE)
- Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BCE)