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| What are Catullus' dates? | 84-54 B.C. |
| What city was Catullus from? | Verona |
| What province was Catullus from? | Cisalpine Gaul |
| What famous Roman visited Catullus' family on several occasions? | Julius Caesar |
| Who called Cat's group of poets "hoi neoteroi"? | Cicero |
| What does "hoi neoteroi" roughly translate to? | the young ones |
| What is the Latin name given to Cat's group of poets? | novi poetae |
| Who were the three C's who were novi poetae? | Calvus, Cinna & Caecilius |
| What are neoterics? | the group of "modern" poets of which Catullus was a part |
| What type of poems did the neoterics avoid and even shun? | epic |
| What type of themes do epic poems promulgate? | courage/bravery, patriotism and piety |
| What branch of Greek poetry did the novi poetae look back to? | lyric poetry |
| Who were the two 7th century Greek lyric poets which the neoterics looked back to? | Sappho & Alceus |
| What other famous Greek lyric poet besides Sappho came from Lesbos? | Alceus |
| What are two basic characteristics of the poetry of Sappho & Alceus? | deeply personal and emotional |
| What are common themes of Sappho & Alceus? | love, infatuation, desire, friendship, personal enemies, lover's rejection, brevity of life and death |
| What connection did poets such as Sappho and Alceus attempt to make with their audience? | a personal one |
| What 3rd century group of poets did Catullus draw upon? | the Hellenistic poets of Alexandria |
| Which Alexandrian poets best reflects this type of poetry? | Callimachus |
| Who called "a big book" (i.e. an epic poem) a "great evil"? | Callimachus |
| Which school of poetry focused on concise, refined and erudite poetry? | the Hellenistic poets of Alexandria |
| What was Catullus' genre of poetry? | lyric |
| Who is considered Rome's first "love poet"? | Catullus |
| How many poems in the corpus of Catullus' works? | 116 |
| Which poems are the "long poems"? | 61-64 |
| What is an epithalamium? | a wedding poem for a bride and groom |
| How many epithalamiums did Catullus write? | 2 |
| What is an epyllion? | a mini-epic |
| Which poems is Catullus' longest? | 64 |
| Which poems are written in elegaic couplet | 65-116 |
| Are Catullus poems arranged chronologically? | no |
| Who do scholars think was Catullus' Lesbia? | Clodia Pulcher |
| To whom does Catullus pay homage by giving his girlfriend the pseudonym "Lesbia"? | Sappho |
| How many poems are addressed to Lesbia? | 25 |
| Which poem seems to be his first about Lesbia? | 51 |
| Who are famous men of the day to whom Catullus addresses poems? | Cicero, Cornelius Nepos & Hortensius |
| What famous Roman did Catullus brazenly insult in one of his poems? | Caesar |
| What is the common name for the metered for which Catullus is most famous? | hendecasyllabic |
| What is another name for hendecasyllabic meter? | phalaecean |
| What are some common characteristics of his poems? | trivial, light, humorous, sarcastic, deeply emotional |
| What is his most famous and shortest poem? | 85 |
| Recite the "I love & hate" poem in Latin | Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. |
| What is the irony behind his dinner invitation poem? | the guests are asked to bring the food |
| What pet of Lesbia did he write two poems about? | her pet sparrow |
| Give three Latin words and their meanings which reflect the tenets which the neoterics held in esteem. | venustus (charming), facetiae (wit) and urbanus (sophisticated) |
| Approximately how old was Catullus at the time of his death? | 30 |
| How did Catullus die? | we don't know |
| Lesbia was a married woman. To whom was she married? | a proconsul named Metellus Celer |
| In what work of Cicero's are we given a description of Clodia? | Pro Caelio |
