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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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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Poetry of Catullus (section Lesbia)
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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[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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Lesbia Venner Harford (née Keogh, 9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927) was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. She was one of the first women to...
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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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(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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Pro Caelio (section Identification of Clodia as Lesbia)
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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legendary examples include Inanna, Lilith, Circe, Medea, Clytemnestra, Lesbia, Tamamo no Mae, and Visha Kanyas. Historical examples from classical times...
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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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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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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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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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Roman poet Catullus's "A Lesbia" as "Dame amor, besos sin cuento" (Seen side-by-side at this webpage). He also wrote plays, which are lost. At fifteen...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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pursued themes of paganism, lesbianism and sado-masochism in such works as Lesbia Brandon and in contributions to The Whippingham Papers (1888) edited by...
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journalist, memoirist, biographer, editor and translator (died 2003) May 22 – Lesbia Soravilla, Cuban writer (died 1989) June 23 – Wolfgang Koeppen, German novelist...
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Villanella Di Cenerentola (From La Gatta Cenerentola) Thomas Campion My Sweetest Lesbia (From A Book Of Airs) 5 Oct 2002 Anna Enquist Bach Sinfonia In F Minor,...
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