Catullus

Catullus
ISBN-10
0715614355
ISBN-13
9780715614358
Series
Catullus
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
1983
Publisher
Duckworth
Authors
Catulle, Gaius Valerius Catullus, Caius Valerius Catullus

Description

The beginnings of lyric poetry among the Romans reach back to the prehistoric period of the city, and were as rude and shapeless as was the life of her people. Amid the rough farmer-populace of the turf-walled village by the Tiber the Arval Brethren and the Salii chanted their rude litanies to the rustic deities, -for even then religion was a prime cause in moving men toward poetry.

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