'Singleness' in Cicero and Catullus
: Harri Kiiskinen
: Sabine R. Huebner and Christian Laes
: 2019
: The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
: 978-1-108-47017-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556279.006
A study of how Catullus and Cicero described the life of single, i.e. unmarried, people in some of their texts.
From Catullus, the poems discussed are 10, 12, 13, 23, 25, 61 and 72. From Cicero, the main source is the speech pro Caelio.