The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should. The lure of these dark arts is strong for any scholar who approaches ...

Was it something to do with blow jobs? Incredulous, I looked again at page 82 of my Latin textbook, then over to the entry in the dictionary; then once more at 82. From the bottom of the page, the ...

Any student of Latin lyric poetry will tell you that Catullus’ poems get pretty raunchy, obsessed with genitalia, semen, and sex in general. But one of his poems is so vulgar that an uncensored modern ...