简介

这些诗歌当中的许多关注诗人对于一个被诗人称作“lesbia”的女子的炙热的爱情 （她的本名，根据Apuleius所说，是Clodia ）。Catullus之所以选择的名字“lesbia”，因为他的钦佩萨福，莱斯沃斯岛的希腊抒情诗人，他还模仿其诗歌风格。真正使诗人在罗马享有盛誉并留名后世的，是他的爱情诗。诗人在罗马生活期间，对一位年岁比他稍长的风流、美丽的罗马贵妇着了迷，他从迷恋中享受过欢乐，也品尝过不少痛苦，诗人把他的由热恋到分离的炽热、复杂、矛盾的爱情感受全部融汇在诗里，词句朴实，感情真挚。卡图卢斯的抒情诗不仅影响到其后的罗马抒情诗的发展，而且对后代欧洲抒情诗的发展也曾产生过相当大的影响。他影响了奥维德（43 b.c.e. - 17 C.E.），写出了著名的Metamorphoses，还写下“爱的艺术”和其他爱情诗。也对后世意大利诗人彼得拉克（公元1304至1374年），以及欧洲传统的诗人们，其中包括威廉莎士比亚（公元1564至1616年）产生过相当大的影响。

英文简介

Catullus

· Born c. 84 B.C.E. Died c. 54 B.C.E. · Born in Verona, Northern Italy, but spent much of his life in Rome.

· Catullus has left us 116 poems of various lengths written between roughly 62-54 B.C.E., although there is debate as to the chronology of their composition (i.e. in whatorderthey were written and when).

· Many of the poems concern the poet’s passion for awomanidentified as ‘Lesbia’ (whoserealname, according to the author, was Clodia).

· Catullus likely chose the name ‘Lesbia’ because of his admiration for Sappho, the Greeklyricpoet of Lesbos, whose poetry he also imitated.

· But Clodia did not apparently like Catullus and his poetry shows all the stages of romantic love from deep attachment to jealousy, despair, bitterness and, finally, indifference.

· Catullus’s love poemswouldinfluence Ovid (43 B.C.E.–17 C.E.) who in addition to the famous Metamorphoses wrote The Art of Love and other love poetry.

· Catullus would also be an influence on the later Italian poet Petrarch (1304-74 C.E.) as well as poets in various European traditions including WilliamShakespeare(1564-1616 C.E.).

· One particularly famous phrase derives from Catullus’s work:

‘odi et amo’ (trans. ‘I hate and I love’), a succinctdescription of the pains of romantic love in which it is possible to love and hate simultaneously.

代表作示例

《诗集》第五首(最富盛名)

生活吧，我的蕾丝比亚，爱吧

生活吧，我的蕾丝比亚，爱吧，

那些古板的指责一文不值，

对那些闲话我们一笑置之。