EROS IN ROME : THE POET CATULLUS
Explore Eros in Rome through the poetry of Catullus. Discover literary criticism and analysis, including Benita Kane Jaro's The Key, in this curated book list on ancient Roman desire.
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The Key
by Benita Kane Jaro
The first volume of a dazzling trilogy, "The Key" shows a world on the verge of collapse through the eyes of its greatest and most passionate poet. Gaius Valerius Catullus, the boy from the provinces who became the lover of the most powerful and beautiful married woman in Rome, is dead at twenty-nine. His friend Marcus Caelius Rufus must search for the meaning of his life in the slums and bloody secret cults, the palaces and law courts of the tottering Roman Republic. Vivid, exciting, carefully researched and beautifully written, "The Key" has been a cult favorite in hardbound for years.
