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 thousand years.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 60 BCE
- Caesar's conquest of Gaul (58 BCE)
- Reign of Augustus (27 BCE)
- Fall of the Roman Republic (133 BCE)
- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Spartacus slave revolt (73 BCE)
- The Crucifixion (33)
- The Resurrection (33)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Caesar's dictatorship (49 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)