Catullus - Latin poet of the 1st century B.C.E.- Aristocratic family - Worte lyric poetry and elegy - Cicero against his work (‘amoral’)- Affair with Lesbia (Clodia) - Relationships with women and men (“Juventius”)-in his poetry he wants Aurelius to stay away from his boyfriend because Aurelius has a bad reputation. -he employs roman customs like punishment of shoving things up Aurelius anus to punish him. Elegy-Basically, a formal lyric poem, but not as personal as lyric. -originally songs of lament, but lateer came to include a variety of subjects -Vast range: love poems – inspirational poetry -Meter most important: elegiac couplets (1 line of hexameter (6ft) followed by a line of pentameter(5ft))-note: epic poetry- dactylic hexameter-Greek Elegy: Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus-Latina Elegy: Ovid, Catullus, Tibullus What is Satire? - Is the combination of humor and criticism to point out human follies. - Where did it come from? Purely Roman- Lucilius, a writer of the 2nd century B.C.E. (roman republic) was the inventor of satire (according to Quintilian, 1st C.E.) - Ennius was the 1st athor to use the term “satura”o Saturae means sausage : a collection of all different kinds of works in different meters.- What characterizes Roman satire? Humor + criticism to human flaw. - Lucilius: critical, social in scope, very focused. - Horace: gentler, conversational dactylic hexameter. - Juvenal: indignation at moral decline; he offends all