Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Simon Smith

Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, poet and translator of Catullus

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CultureGolden Age Latin writers1st-century BC RomansIambic poetsValerii1st-century BC Roman poets, Elegiac poets

  1. Catullus

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Catullus - some of the greatest verse of his time, and some of the most scurrilous - and his influence on Roman and later poetry

    11 January 2020

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    Also featuring: Gail Trimble, Maria Wyke

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    CultureGolden Age Latin writers1st-century BC RomansIambic poetsValerii1st-century BC Roman poets, Elegiac poets