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Peatland Poetry From the Past: The Neighbour of Catullus (First Half of the 1 st Century BCE)

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Texts from Antiquity include valuable information on how ancient cultures perceived peatlands and other wetlands. Catullus - a poet from the first half of the 1 st century BCE - wrote a cynical wetland-related poem in which he wished one of his neighbours to fall into a sludgy “pool” because he was too stupid to notice that his wife had affairs with various lovers. The poem gives some indication of how the Romans designated unconsolidated wetland sediments (gyttja).

Source: Mires and Peat

DOI: 10.19189/001c.144175

Author: Pim de Klerk

Institutions: State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Institute of Sustainable Development of Landscapes of the Earth

Language: English

Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4415820452

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