Gaius Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) was an influential neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic, a little older than the generation of Catullus...
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Poetry of Catullus (section Gaius Helvius Cinna)
Courtney, E. (2003). Who's Who in the Classical World. Oxford, entry: Helvius Cinna, Gaius. Fordyce (1961), p. 123. Fordyce (1961), pp. 182–183. Wiseman, T...
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included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping...
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Helvia gens (redirect from Marcus Helvius Geminus)
by taking his own life, when Brutus was captured by his enemies. Gaius Helvius Cinna, a celebrated poet, friend of Catullus, and tribune of the plebs...
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military historian Gaius Helvius Cinna (1st century BC), poet Marcus Caelius Rufus (87–48 BC), orator, correspondent with Cicero Gaius Sallustius Crispus...
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tribune of the plebs, Helvius Cinna, was torn to pieces by an enraged mob after they mistook him for the praetor Cornelius Cinna, on account of their identical...
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Cornelius Cinna - two; politician and son Gaius Helvius Cinna - poet Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus - consul Gaius Julius Civilis - noble Batavian Gaius Julius...
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Bithynia and Pontus. His staff included the young poets Catullus and Helvius Cinna; on his return to Rome, Catullus wrote verses complaining of how Memmius...
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Catullus (redirect from Gaius Valerius Catullus)
years in Rome. His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius (son of the orator and rival of Cicero), and the...
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Hermippus of Berytus, his mother's name was Tetha. He was taken prisoner by Helvius Cinna in the Mithridatic Wars and carried to Rome in 66 BC. He subsequently...
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who had saluted Caesar as king. At Caesar's urging, the tribune Gaius Helvius Cinna arranged for Epidius to be deprived of his office, and expelled from...
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he had hitherto produced nothing comparable to the work of Varius or Helvius Cinna. Macrobius (Saturnalia, vi. I, 39; 2, 19) states that Varius composed...
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worked in the Roman theatre, and wrote a well-regarded commentary on Gaius Helvius Cinna's poem, Smyrna. In the latter half of the first century BC, he taught...
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493: Lucius Albinius C. f. Paterculus 493: Gaius Icilius (Viscellius?) Ruga 493: Lucius Junius Brutus 493: Gaius Licinius 493: Publius Licinius 493: Lucius...
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medical writer Geminus, Rhodian Greek astronomer and mathematician Helvius Cinna, Roman poet Horace, Roman poet Huan Tan, Chinese poet, philosopher and...
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Iapodes, rebelled, but the Roman legate named Marcus Helvius (whom Syme relates to the poet Helvius Cinna), sent against them, succeeded in nipping the revolt...
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wrote a pamphlet proving that Caesarion was not Caesar's child, and C. Helvius Cinna—the poet who was killed by rioters after Antonius' funeral oration—was...
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consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and killed the other consul, Gnaeus Octavius, achieving his seventh consulship. Marius and Cinna revenged their partisans...
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work much used by Pliny the Elder Res Etruscae, probably on augury Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) Zmyrna, a mythological epic poem about the incestuous...
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Cornelius Merula Gaius Helvius Marcus Porcius Cato 197 Lucius Atilius Marcus Helvius Lucius Manlius Vulso Marcus Minucius Rufus Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus...
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story was the subject of the most famous work (now lost) of the poet Helvius Cinna. Several alternate versions appeared in the Bibliotheca, the Fabulae...
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wrote a pamphlet proving that Caesarion was not Caesar's child, and C. Helvius Cinna – the poet who was killed by rioters after Antonius's funeral oration –...
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Cimber) Helvius Cinna, Roman poet Lorenzo Ferrero: Le piccole storie: Ai margini delle guerre Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars Lucius Cornelius Cinna, Roman...
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Catullus, who very likely knew Lesbia's true identity. They include Helvius Cinna, Pollio, Nepos, Varro and even Cicero himself. Moreover, scholars agree...
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this compromise held until 376 BC, when two of the tribunes of the plebs, Gaius Licinius Calvus Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus, blocked the election...
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known example is Catullus, who, along with the poet Helvius Cinna, accompanied his patron Gaius Memmius to Bithynia in 57–56 BC, but was disappointed...
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