Counting Stars: The Troubled Love Story Between the Poet Catullus and His Muse Clodia

LOVE AND HATE IN THE NOVEL ABOUT ONE OF HUMANITY'S GREATEST POETS During the final years of the Roman Republic, the relationship between the poet Catullus and the seductive Clodia is intense, tormented, and sincere. She is the Lesbia of his most passionate writings, the muse of his obsession. With her, Catullus experiences great pleasures but also the violence and terror of the underbelly of Roman society. Hate and love form the guiding threads of this novel, which reveals the bitterness and joy of one of humanity's greatest poets, who influenced important names in modern literature, such as T.S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire. • "Helen Dunmore vividly captures the Rome of Julius Caesar." - The Independent