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Gaius Valerius Catullus, often called Catullus, was a Roman poet whose statements on love and hate are considered the best lyrical poetry of ancient Rome.
Scholars have concluded from existing sources that Catullus was a contemporary of the statesmen Cicero, Pompey, and Caesar, whom he addresses in various ways in his poems. In 25 poems he speaks of his love for a woman he calls Lesbia. In other poems Catullus speaks sarcastically or contemptuously of Julius Caesar and other politicians.
Catullus' poems have been praised by modern poets, notably Ovid and Virgil.
Zoe Leonard is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited widely since the late 1980s and her work has been included in a number of seminal exhibitions including Documenta IX and Documenta XII, and the 1993, 1997 and 2014 Whitney biennials. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.
Samuel Henry Alken the Younger was a British painter.
Samuel Henry Alken was the son of Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) and grandson of Samuel Alken Senior (1756-1815). Like his father, he usually depicted equestrian sporting scenes, but did so in sets. The most famous of the sets of paintings by Henry Alken, Jr. is a depiction of hunting at Belvoir Castle.
