Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Sunday, September 28, 2008

What did Lesbia do to make Catullus hate her in the later poems? Was it just that they cannot be together or was there something else?

2 comments:

Bo W said...

Well Catullus loved Lesbia(Clodia, her real name) in the beginning, but she's married, and went back to her husband. That's why Catullus wrote those disparaging poems.

Jessica Deckard said...

Love often turns to hate when someone is rejected. Lesbia was married, and Catullus found out that, although his love for her was passionate and true, he was just a play thing to Lesbia. If you only sort of care about someone, you don't get so upset when they dump you. Passionate love can lead to passionate hate.