{"id":9474,"date":"2015-05-08T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:05:27","slug":"an-elegy-for-calvus-and-quintilia-catullus-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2015\/05\/08\/an-elegy-for-calvus-and-quintilia-catullus-96\/","title":{"rendered":"An Elegy for Calvus and Quintilia (Catullus 96)"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9474-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Hoffer_Catullus-Podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Hoffer_Catullus-Podcast.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Hoffer_Catullus-Podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Catullus&#8217; elegy on the death of Quintilia, meant to console his friend and fellow poet Calvus for his loss, is an eloquent testament both to Calvus&#8217; love for Quinitilia, and to the bond between Catullus and Calvus, argues <strong>Michelle Hoffer<\/strong>. She points out that while\u00a0the poem is full of intense emotion, the elegant\u00a0word order shows that Catullus crafted his thoughts very carefully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.19thcenturyart-facos.com\/artwork\/funeral-atala\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9476 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Hoffer_atala-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Hoffer_atala\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Hoffer_atala-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Hoffer_atala-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Hoffer_atala.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>S\u012b quicquam m\u016bt\u012bs gr\u0101tum acceptumve sepulcr\u012bs<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">accidere \u0101 nostr\u014d, Calve, dol\u014dre potest,<\/p>\n<p>qu\u014d d\u0113s\u012bderi\u014d veter\u0113s renov\u0101mus am\u014dr\u0113s<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">atque \u014dlim miss\u0101s fl\u0113mus am\u012bciti\u0101s,<\/p>\n<p>cert\u0113 n\u014dn tant\u014d mors imm\u0101t\u016bra dol\u014dr\u012b est<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Qu\u012bntiliae, quantum gaudet am\u014dre tu\u014d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0Anne-Louis Girodet (de Roussy-Trioson), &#8220;Funeral of Atala&#8221; 1808. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.19thcenturyart-facos.com\/artwork\/funeral-atala\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catullus&#8217; elegy on the death of Quintilia, meant to console his friend and fellow poet Calvus for his loss, is an eloquent testament both to Calvus&#8217; love for Quinitilia, and to the bond between Catullus and Calvus, argues Michelle Hoffer. She points out that while\u00a0the poem is full of intense emotion, the elegant\u00a0word order shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4723],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catullus-96"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}