{"product_id":"the-poems-by-catullus-9780140449815","title":"The Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of the beautiful, surprising poems of Catullus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli—married, seductive, and corrupt—charting the course from rapturous delight in a new affair to the torment of love gone sour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover poems to his young friend Iuventius, as well as longer verse, such as the extraordinary tale of Attis, a Greek youth who castrates himself in a fit of religious ecstasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging from the tender, moving, and passionate to the vicious and even obscene, these are poems of astonishingly modern force and content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46504838791404,"sku":"9780140449815","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27385923482237.jpg?v=1748656868","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-poems-by-catullus-9780140449815","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}