The Experience of Love in the Poetry of Catullus and Horace

Analizom odabranih pjesama istaknutih pjesnika Zlatnog razdoblja rimske književnosti, Katula i Horacija, u radu se donosi prikaz njihova doživljaja ljubavi. Premda su bili suvremenici, njihova je poezija različita, što je posebno izraţeno u ljubavnoj lirici. Centralni ženski lik u Katulovoj poeziji je Lezbija, a u Horacijevoj Lidija. Odabran korpus pjesama temeljen je na kriteriju ljubavnih faza kroz koje pjesnik prolazi u intimnoj vezi: ljubavni zanos, ljubomora te ljubavna bol i razočaranje. Navedene su faze analizirane prema pojedinim zajedničkim motivima koji ih karakteriziraju, čime se žele prikazati poneke sličnosti, ali pretežito razlike u doživljaju ljubavi ove dvojice pjesnika.Through the analysis of the chosen poems of the reckoned poets of the Golden period of Roman age, Catullus and Horace, this thesis presents their experience of love. Although they were contemporaries, their poetry is different, which is especially pronounced in love lyric. The central character in the Catullus poetry is Lesbia, and in Horace‟s Lydia. The chosen corpus of the poems is based on the criteria of the love phases trough which a poet passes in an intimate relationship: the love flare, jealousy, and love pain and disappointment. The mentioned phases are analyzed according to the certain commune motives which characterize them, by which it is desired to show some similarities, but also mostly the differences in the experience in love from both of the poets