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26 Cards in this Set
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Authors name?
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M. Valerius Catullus
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What was he called?
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Doctus catullus
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Birth place?
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Verona
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Birth year?
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87-54
84-54 |
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What age was he writing under?
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Golden age
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"new poets"?
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Neoterics
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Alexandria, erudite, cosmopolitan
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Hellenistic
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Influenced by ?
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Callimachus
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Callimachus is famous for saying what?
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"megon biblion megon kakon"
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When was Callimachus around?
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200s
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Catallus' muse?
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Sappho, of lesbos
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What does amicitia mean?
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Friendship
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Who was Catullus' biggest amicitia?
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Clodia
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What did catallus refer to Clodia as in literature?
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Lesbia
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How many poems did catallus have and what were they mainly about?
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116 poems about his life as a whole
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How many where about Clodia or lesbia?
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20
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1-60 were?
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Polymetric
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61-64 were?
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Long
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61 and 62 were?
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Epithalamian
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63 was
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Cybele attus
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64 was?
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Pelius and Thetis
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65-116 was?
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Elegies
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Usually Catullus' works were?
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Hendecasyllabic
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Worst time of Catullus' life? 1
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Brother dies
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Worst time of Catullus' life? 2
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Staff of literary consul C.Memmius in Bithynia
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Literary work on cloth?
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Ecfrastic
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