Editing Catullus (section)

==Cultural depictions==
* The 1888 play ''[[Lesbia (play)|Lesbia]]'' by [[Richard Davey (writer)|Richard Davey]] depicts the relationship between Catullus and Lesbia, based on incidents from Catullus's poems.<ref>{{cite news |title=Our Play-Box: ''Lesbia'' |work=The Theatre |date=1 November 1888 |pages=256–257 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XwTTdl8FjYC&pg=RA8-PA256}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Amusements: ''Lesbia'' |work=The New York Times |date=9 October 1890 |page=4 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26383477/the_new_york_times/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* Catullus was the main protagonist of the historical novel ''Farewell, Catullus'' (1953) by [[Pierson Dixon]]. The novel shows the corruption of [[Roman Empire|Roman]] society.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.biblio.com/book/farewell-catullus-dixon-pierson/d/700773444|title=Farewell, Catullus|first=Pierson|last=Dixon|year=1954|via=Biblio.com}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| author1=Reine Rimón and her Hot Papas jazz band| author2=Gregg Stafford| author3=Tuomo Pekkanen| author4=Gaius Valerius Catullus| title=Variationes iazzicae Catullianae| language=la| url=http://www.reinerimonjazz.com/recordings.shtml| access-date=7 October 2013}}</ref>
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s novel ''[[Lolita]]'' makes multiple explicit and implicit allusions to Catullus's work.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.2307/441433 |doi=10.2307/441433 |jstor=441433 |title=Humbert Humbert's Use of Catullus 58 in Lolita |last1=Dyer |first1=Gary R. |journal=Twentieth Century Literature |date=13 August 1988 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=1–15 }}</ref>
*[[W. G. Hardy]]'s novel ''The City of Libertines'' (1957) tells the fictionalized story of Catullus and a love affair during the time of Julius Caesar. The ''[[Financial Post]]'' described the book as "an authentic story of an absorbing era".<ref>{{cite news|title=The City of Libertines by W. G. Hardy|date=7 December 1957|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba|page=38|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/sports-clipping-dec-07-1957-1461222/}}{{free access}}</ref>
* A poem by Catullus is being recited to [[Cleopatra]] in the eponymous [[Cleopatra (1963 film)|1963 film]] when [[Julius Caesar]] comes to visit her; they talk about him (Cleopatra: 'Catullus doesn't approve of you. Why haven't you had him killed?' Caesar: 'Because I approve of him.') and Caesar then recites other poems by him.
*The American poet [[Louis Zukofsky]] in 1969 wrote a set of [[homophonic translation]]s of Catullus that attempted in English to replicate the sound as primary emphasis, rather than the more common emphasis on sense of the originals (although the relationship between sound and sense there is often misrepresented and has been clarified by [http://www.z-site.net/notes-to-poetry/catullus-1969-with-celia-zukofsky/ careful study]); his Catullus versions have had extensive influence on contemporary innovative poetry and homophonic translation, including the work of poets [[Robert Duncan (poet)|Robert Duncan]], [[Robert Kelly (poet)|Robert Kelly]], and [[Charles Bernstein (poet)|Charles Bernstein]].
*Robert de Maria wrote a fictional account of Catullus's life in his 1965 novel “Clodia”.
*Catullus is the protagonist of [[Tom Holland (author)|Tom Holland]]'s 1995 novel ''Attis''.
*Catullus appears in [[Steven Saylor]]'s 1995 novel ''[[The Venus Throw]]'' as the embittered ex-lover of Clodia, sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher, whom he calls Lesbia.
*Both Catullus and Clodia appear as major characters in Thornton Wilder's epistolary novel, "The Ides of March" (1948). Several excerpts from Catullus' poems are included.