Literature

Once again, the style of this post is a bit different from my previous ones. Instead of doing short, blurb-ish myth retelling like the ones I did over the summer, I'm going to try to shift the content of my blog into research. The following is a slightly modified version of a research paper I completed over the past two months, complete with Thesis and Bibliography. The following is my original research. Enjoy! Introduction  Since its conception, race has always been in conve

Catullus 29 is neither my favorite nor the most interesting Catullian poem I've translated, but I do believe that it is the epitome of...

When I say that my favorite writer is a dead Roman whose thousand-year-old verses could contend with the likes of Eminem, people give me weird looks. Though his poems were explicit even by today’s standard, Catullus nonetheless pioneered the style of lyric poetry in celebrating the sensual joys of life—drinking, dancing, queerness, loving—topics ostracized in Roman society. Reducing his achievements to pages of sacrilege, flabbergasted critics slandered Catullus for not confo