The Charles Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical Latin Studies
Obscenity in Classical Latin
Index
- Bukowski and Catullus: Two Unrefined Gentlemen
- The Complete Hyperlinked Catullus (with concordance)
- Verba Cloacae: A Prurient Latin Vocabulary List
- Obscure Texts (Priapeia)
Salvete, Irrumatores!
The ancient Romans had lusty appetites; just like modern people, they seemed to have one thing on their minds.
The Charles Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical Latin Studies seeks to drag obscenity out of those dusty tomes and stick it right where it belongs.
Bukowski wrote the same sort of poetry that Catullus did, the kind that hits you hard in the gut. The two poets even shared common themes.
Obscurae Scriptae
Some obscene Latin texts are well known, such as the naughty poems of Catullus. The Obscure Organization is proud to offer a new hypertext edition of Catullus with a full concordance.
Other texts are even more obscure.
Verba Cloacae
Tired Latin texts written by prim religious scholars do not give the discerning cinaedus enough vocabulary to read the racier texts properly. The Prurient Latin Vocabulary List seeks to remedy this omission.
Altera Scriptae
- Yahoo's Bukowski Links
- Yahoo's Catullus Links
- Buk's page
- Project Libellus—the original source for this text.
- Translations of Catullus in English and over 35 other languages
- meOme Latin Portal—A German-language portal's Latin section
- Clodia—possibly the real-life Lesbia.
- The Perseus Project's Catullus pages—a massively hyperlinked classical reference.
- Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar—a hypertext version of the canonical Latin grammar reference.
- VVikipedia: Encyclopædia Libera... Latina lingva—a free Wiki-based Latin encyclopedia.
- Little Rome—Roman history, culture, and general Latin and Roman-related fun.
- Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid—a solid tool from Notre Dame
- Whitaker's Words—an excellent word analysis tool. Also available for download.
- Latin Conjugation Program from Michael McLarnon
- Latin Grammar: Verb conjugation and noun declension from Eric Conrad
- American Classical League
- 3 Quarks Daily musings on lyric poetry—a good primer on why the poems of Catullus have so much appeal
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