• Lesbia is a one-act play written by Richard Davey. The story is a comedy about the relationship between the Roman poet Catullus and his lover Lesbia. The...
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  • Lesbia was a figure in Roman poetry. Lesbia can also refer to: Lesbia Castillo, Venezuelan politician Lesbia Harford (1891–1927), Australian poet, novelist...
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    Lesbia Harford (9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927) was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. She was one of the first women to study law degree...
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    however, identifies Clodia with Lesbia primarily on the basis of Catullus 79.1-2: Lesbius is beautiful. Why not? And Lesbia prefers him to you and your whole...
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    [when?][citation needed] The 1888 play Lesbia by Richard Davey depicts the relationship between Catullus and Lesbia, based on incidents from Catullus's...
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    which Catullus expresses his love for the woman he calls Lesbia. If Catullus's girlfriend Lesbia is, as is usually assumed, a pseudonym for Clodia, the...
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    in sonnets. Gullio then persuades Ingenioso to impersonate his mistress, Lesbia, while Gullio rehearses love poetry that Gullio himself has written and...
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    Clodia has been identified with some probability with the poet Catullus's Lesbia. Caelius was charged with vis (political violence), one of the most serious...
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    which Mansfield intended to stage other plays. Initially, he followed this plan, introducing productions of Lesbia and A Parisian Romance at the beginning...
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    (poem 85) "Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus" (poem 5) "Ille mi par esse deo videtur" (poem 51) "Caeli! Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa" (poem 58) "Nulli se...
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    legendary examples include Inanna, Lilith, Circe, Medea, Clytemnestra, Lesbia, Tamamo no Mae, and Visha Kanyas. Historical examples from classical times...
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  • Rome, the poet Catullus adapted it into his 51st poem, putting his muse Lesbia into the role of Sappho's beloved. The Roman poets Valerius Aedituus and...
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    Andria (comedy) (category Plays based on other plays)
    briefly when the midwife Lesbia comes out of the house, is a solemn metre often sung by women characters. Compared with a Plautus play such as Epidicus, Terence's...
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  • pederasty (poems 14, 109) and his love of a married woman (poem 83 mentions Lesbia's husband). Apparently Catullus and his contemporaries believed a man could...
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    Claudius and Claudius the God, the novels by Robert Graves, Livilla is called 'Lesbia', a name alluding to the island where she was born. She was almost omitted...
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  • relationship between an unnamed puella ('girl', possibly Catullus' lover, Lesbia), and her pet sparrow. As scholar and poet John Swinnerton Phillimore has...
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    painting fell out of fashion, and he is best remembered as the painter of Lesbia, depicting the fabled muse of the Roman poet Catullus. John Reinhard Weguelin...
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    Getting Married (category 1908 plays)
    other weddings he proposes to Lesbia Grantham, the bride's aunt, who refuses him for the "tenth and last" time. Lesbia wants a family, but not a husband...
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  • Catullus alluded to are poems II and III, in which the character Lesbia first plays with, then mourns, the passer (sparrow). The narrator refers to the...
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    Offering to Venus, 1912 In the Tepidarium, 1913 A fair reflection, 1915 Lesbia with the Sparrow, 1916 At the Window, 1920 Swanson, Vern (1997). John William...
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  • Catullus (57), who says in a moment of bitterness: Caelī, Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa, illa Lesbia, quam Catullus ūnam plūs quam sē atque suōs amāvit omnēs...
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  • boots it, **, that thy princely blood" Juvenilia Unknown Lesbia (Catullus, V) 1785-1797 "My Lesbia let us love and live" Juvenilia Unknown Septimus and Acme...
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  • Jackson Danielle Fuentes Samaria Gómez Danya Gutiérrez Ana Lucía Martínez Lesbia Puerto 3 goals Aisse Gumbs Rianna Cyrus Jaden Masters Aaliyah Nolan Priscila...
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  • Catches the Hunter". Curtis Brown. Retrieved 2024-02-26. "Starstruck | Black Plays Archive". www.blackplaysarchive.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-26. "Starstruck"...
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  • solemn-breathing air is ended—" 1794 1796, March 3 To Lesbia. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus. - Catullus "My Lesbia, let us love and live," 1794? 1798, April 11...
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  • "A". Carberry, Josiah S. (October 1, 1934). "Another Catullus to Another Lesbia". The Classical Weekly. 28: 23. ProQuest 1296357038. Quinn, John J.; Carberry...
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  • Place" 1955 The Water Gipsies Fay Meadows TV film 1957 Getting Married Lesbia Grantham TV film 1957 Theatre Night Lorna Loveday "Six Months' Grace" 1957...
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  • The Venus Throw as the embittered former lover of Clodia, whom he calls Lesbia. Dio of Alexandria, an Egyptian philosopher sent by his people as a diplomat...
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    of Lyonesse (1882), Poems and Ballads Third Series (1889), and the novel Lesbia Brandon (published posthumously in 1952). Poems and Ballads caused a sensation...
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    and Fixtures – FIFA.com The following players were named to the squad to play the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup qualification match against Martinique on 3...
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