Recommendations for a Starter

[ilovcroketas]

Hey,

I am a Literature Student who is starting to learn latin. I've been five months with it now and I wanted some recommendations on where to start in latin poerty in latin. I really like Vergil and Ovid, I'm also very into satire but haven't read Horace or Juvenal yet.

I also appreciate any recommendations on where to start reading Latin literature, even if it's translated. Any help is welcome :)

Thank you very much^^

[Ehol77]

I'm just starting as well,since Christmas, and I'm curious if you found any poetry suitable for beginners?

[KHay]

Hello to ilovcroketas and Ehol77,

I have a book with the poems of Catullus, which I like very much. This is a translation published by Penguin Classics:

The Poems of Catullus (translated by Peter Whigham).

In this book are short poems and not so short poems, giving a cultural and political portrait of Rome in the time of Catullus. It also has short biographical notes on most of the people mentioned in the poems.

I think it would not be difficult to find these poems in Latin as well!

[ilovcroketas]

Thank you so much, Khay. I'll give it a look :)