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Catullus Links, fairly random, 2017 (Jim O’Hara)

Latin or English texts, often with translations or notes

Catullus in Latin and English on Perseus

Latin and other texts of Catullus on forumromanum

VRoma Catullus Latin text and facing translation and some notes

Latin text of Catullus with lines numbered

catullusonline.org Daniel Kiss’ text with links to an online repertory of conjectures on Catullus” including info from Ullman’s notebooks at UNC

 

Poems of Catullus – Wikibooks, open books for an open world wiki notes on many poems, e.g.:

Catullus 64.50-253 – Wikisource

The Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus/70 – Wikibooks, open books for an open world

The Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus/8 – Wikibooks, open books for an open world

VRoma Catullus

Catullus links to various kinds of texts and background info at VRoma

Catullus Translations and links- Welcome – Gaius Valerius Catullus by Rudy Negenborn

The Charles Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical Latin Studies

Catullus 64: The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis An Interactive Reading Commentary by Robert W. Ulery

TeacherWeb® Catullus links

Quia – Class Page – whscatullus

Catullus Text and Poems (a few)

Catullus 63 in English in Morford Mythology book

Gaius Valerius Catullus- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

Catullus – New World Encyclopedia

Bret Mulligan’s The Bridge will help you make vocab lists for several authors, including Catullus

 

 

Bibliography

A Hellenistic Bibliography by Martine Cuypers, Trinity College Dublin: Catullus

Oxford (annotated) Bibliographies online: Catullus by David Konstan

 

 

General Classics:

TOCS-IN Search Great search tool for recent articles in Classics

Gnomon German journal’s bibliographical database for Classics  -“allgemeine suche” = general search

L’Année philologique on the Internet; covers 84 years of classical bibliography ((get through Davis Library??))

 

Manuscripts/editions

Pics of 1502 edition of Catullus and others

catullusonline.org Great new site: Daniel Kiss’ “\online repretory of conjectures on Catullus” including info from Uhlman’s notebooks at UNC

Kiss’ page on the principal manuscripts with sample images

 

Maps

Google maps for Sirmione on Lago di Garda (yes, its a peninsula as in Cat. 31); pull back to see Verona to the East and Brescia (Brexia of Cat 67) to the West

Map for tours showing Catullus’ Verona, Vergil’s Mantua, Livy’s Padua (plus Venice, Florence, Genoa)

Sirmio for tourists

Site on visiting “Catullus’” Villa (actually a century or so later)

More on visiting that site as a tourist

 

Links and brief background info, often for a course

  1. Zetzel of Columbia a few notes on Catullus

John Porter, notes on Catullus, U. of Saskatchewan

Catullus Introduction Iona

Mr. J’s Catullus Page Links for a high school class

Catullus background essay and some bibliography at NNDB

CATULLUS web page background from a course at Vassar

Catullus background page with notes on a few poems

A Personal Bibliography for Catullan Studies Edited by Ulysses K. Vestal, September 2005

 

Some notes on meter and style, on Catullus or on Latin poetry generally

Meters of Catullus

Guide to the scansion of Latin Poetry

Scansion of hendecasyllabics, Sapphics, elegiac couplets

mnemonics for greek metre  and catullus’ hendecasyllabics and galliambics (63)

figuresofspeech.htm

Poetic word order

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar at Perseus

 

Catullus in the media

Daily Show w Jon Stewart: Toppington Von Monocle quotes Cat. 16 pedicabo ego vos… Apr 21, 2010 (Rome’s birthday) Transcript  at :04:09 (site no longer works)

Video clip of the quotation of Cat 16 on The Daily Show, at about 6:30 (site no longer works)

Story about the Daily Show’s Catullus quote (calling him a “philosopher”)

 

Olive oil from “Grotto of Catullus” will be Pure Poetry | Olive Oil Times

Hedges and catullus and poem 101 and poem 31 and 46 and 4 and carmen 101 and travel and vectus

Harper’s Magazine story onCarl Orff and Catullus

Rogueclassicism: Catullus in the Guardian on Charlotte Higgins’ Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your Life

Catullus 16 and a lawsuit involvimng use of pedicabo vos et irrumabo: Not for Texting

Miss (Edith) Hamilton Disposes: Catullus & Lesbia | Open Letters Monthly – an Arts and Literature Review

Review of novel on Catullus the jilted lover – Telegraph

NC writer–Catullus: the supreme poet of spring | Books | guardian.co.uk

Catullus – mentioned on Star Trek DS9 by a “muse” who says she helped him write

Stephen Saylor has written several mystery novels set in Cicero’s Rome.  Here’s the “Roman Fiction” page.  Saylor’s 1995 novel The Venus Throw is set in 56 BCE and Clodia is a minor character, Catullus a minor one, though his performance of Poem 63 “Attis” at a dinner party is memorable

Some thoughts Catullus: kiss and poetry « STOA POIKILE

Swarthmore College: Catullus the Basketcase

 

 

Pics

Painting: Catullus at Lesbia’s by Sir Laurence Alma Tadema OM RA, 1836-1912

Modern bust of Catullus at Sirmione

VROMA images of Caesar, Caesar, Caesar, Caesar, Caesar on a coin, Pompey, Cicero.

Via Valerio Catullo in Verona on Google maps

 

Catullus read, performed, adapted, imitated, dramatized

Catullus 5 read by Harvard’s R Tarrant and W Clausen (nneds quicktime player, may not work)

YouTube – Guitar + Catullus 5 in Latin and English (pretty good; called “punk rock Catullus”)

YouTube -Catullus 101 (Elegiac couplet)

YouTube – Catull c. 5: Vivamus, mea Lesbia!

YouTube – Let’s Pretend We Never Met – Catullus vid

YouTube – Catullus 8

YouTube – Odi et amo – Carl Orff

YouTube – Stanley Pacion CATULLUS POEM 11, An Adaptation of an Ancient Roman Love Lyric, Rewrite

YouTube – stanley pacion CATULLUS POEM 5, An Adaptation of an Ancient Roman Love Poem,

YouTube – stanley pacion CATULLUS POEM 58, An Adaptation of a Love Poem

YouTube – stanley pacion SOUR GRAPES, A Love Poem after Gaius Valerius Catullus

YouTube – stanley pacion BREAKFAST TREAT, After Gaius Vallerius Catullus

YouTube – stanley pacion FROM NOW VOYAGER, An Adaptation of POEM V, Gaius Valerius Catullus

YouTube – Miser Catulle – Carl Orff

YouTube – Catullus the Movie (student project)

CATULLUS! (the “screamo” band) on Myspace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads  (these probably won’t play)

Catullus (the “screamo” band from Bayonne NJ) (these probably won’t play)

Zukofskys:

Miss her, Catullus? : A.E. StallingsLouis and Ceilia Zukofsky do Catullus

Zukofsky / Catullus

Estranging the Classic: The Zukofskys’ Catullus

 

Some scholarship

BMCReview of Hurley Catullus 2005.01.05

A Bryn Mawr Classical Review search for the term Catullus.

Julia Haig Gaisser – Catullus | Free eBooks Download – EBOOKEE!

Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons – Cambridge Books Online – Cambridge University Press

Ziolkowski, Anglo-American Catullus since the Mid-Twentieth Century

Skinner_book on Cat. 65-116pdf

Ellis, A Commentary on Catullus – Cambridge Books Online – Cambridge University Press