Eric Alfred Havelock
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Sterling Professor of Classics, Yale University, 1963β71. Author of The Lyric Genius of Catullus and others.
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Catullus was a Roman poet whose expressions of love and hatred are generally considered the finest lyric poetry of ancient Rome. In 25 of his poems he speaks of his love for a woman he calls Lesbia, whose identity is uncertain. Other poems by Catullus are scurrilous outbursts of contempt or hatredβ¦
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