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Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
Contributor(s): Dunn, Daisy (Author), Grady, Mike (Read by)
ISBN: 1504733770     ISBN-13: 9781504733779
Publisher: HarperCollins
OUR PRICE:   $35.99  
Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: July 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: 874.01
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 6.7" (0.10 lbs)
 
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A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first modern" poet, and follows a young man's journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing--an accessible, appealing look at one of history's greatest poets.

Born to one of Verona's leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero and chronicling his life through his poetry. Famed for his lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about his friends were jocular, often obscenely funny, while those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome. Many of his poems recall his secret longstanding affair with the seductive older Clodia.

While Catullus and Clodia made love in the shadows, the whole of Italy was quaking as Caesar, Pompey and Crassus forged a doomed alliance for power. During these tumultuous years, Catullus increasingly turned to darker subject matter, and he finally composed his greatest work of all--a poem about the decoration on a bedspread--which forms the heart of this biography, a work of beauty that will achieve immortality and make Catullus a legend.


Contributor Bio(s): Dunn, Daisy: -

Daisy Dunn studied classics at the University of Oxford, earned a master's degree in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and completed a doctorate in classics and art history at University College London. She writes for the Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, The Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and History Today. She lives in London, England.

Grady, Mike: -

Mike Grady, Earphones Award-winning narrator and voice talent, is an English actor whose career has spanned more than forty years. On stage he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and on the West End. He is also known for roles in Last of the Summer Wine, Sweet Sixteen, and Citizen Smith.