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20 Cards in this Set
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Birth-death |
87-54 B.C. |
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Where was he born? |
Verona |
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Full name? |
C. Valerius Catullus |
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Titles |
Epigrammatist, biting satirist, elegist |
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Renowned among what group of people? |
Romans for epigrams and elegies |
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Who did he influence much? |
Vergil |
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Surpassed Horace and Vergil in... |
Technical skill and spontaneity |
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Contemporaries of who |
Caesar Cicero and Nepos |
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What poet did he share many friends with? |
Cicero |
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Who did he make personal attacks on? |
Caesar and Pompey |
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Carmina |
Collection of poems, after death |
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What do poems portray? |
Level of Roman society where Greek culture and morals dominate |
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Lesbia |
Woman he loves |
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Who is she really |
Clodia, slut, older and married |
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Who was father |
Appius Claudius Pulcher |
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What position did he hold in government |
Consul in 79 BC |
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What class was his mother |
Patrician |
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How many siblings did Clodia have |
5 |
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Who was her husband |
Q. Caecilius Celer |
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Pro caelio |
Cicero mocks Clodia for being a slut |
