gaius valerius catullus in words and music

N.S. Gill at Ancient/Classical History in today's blog takes National Poetry Month as an occasion to honor the 1st century BC Roman poet Catullus.  Go take a look.

She also wrote on Carmen 85, Odi et Amo in the past.

All 116 extant poems can be found in translation online.  In print, we have  The Poems of Catullus, Peter Whigham, translator.  More Catullus editions.  And here is more on the poet from the University of Saskatchewan.

For a general overview, there is Catullus and his World : A Reappraisal by T. P. Wiseman.  Our group has discussed this book in the past.  Wiseman's writing is always clear, and here, he is often quite amusing to boot.

There is also a musical treatment: One of my favorite oratorial pieces is Carl Orff's Catulli Carmina which can be found here together with Trionfo di Aphrodite, and samples can be listened to.

And from an earlier entry of mine:  Chris Weimer of  Thoughts on Antiquity has taken a fresh look at Catullus’ poems and has translated  two of them here, and added a poem of his own, addressed to Catullus.