Need help choosing Greek/Roman authors

[Rev. Rye]

Catullus: His collected works (in a bilingual edition with both the original Latin and English) are about 150 pages, not including notes. I remember accidentally mentioning Poem 16 in class, and the next day, most of the students came in, shaken by what they read in their spare time.

Haha, colorful guy!

Ended up with a link to this:
http://pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/G...ompeii.htm

For what it's worth, I took an AP Catullus/Horace Latin class in my Senior Year. It was very difficult, not just because of the language, but because A) our first two years of Latin were kind of compromised because the other students tended to sidetrack the teacher, B) The old teacher not only used some very different textbooks with very different vocabularies [Fun fact: he worked under the assumption that insula, a word we had never learned would be one of the first words we learned], but was likely sliding into dementia (judging by the fact that he sidetracked at the slightest provocation, like talking about using Mr. Creosote to potty-train his kid [don't ask] or the winter they shot Ordinary People near his home).

It got so bad that most of the students (including one who was one of only a couple hundred that year to get a 36 on his ACT and was a valedictorian with an absurdly high GPA) started up a cheating ring. I was the only one who didn't, mostly because I was left out of the loop. He spent the next two days lecturing us about how disappointed he was in us and how he expected us to fail the AP Exam. Partly because it was a cheating ring covering most of the class and partly because it involved the school's Golden Boy, the whole thing was hushed up.

When the time came, the test was as difficult as I expected. I got a 2 on mine. I don't think anyone else got higher than that. Really, in the long run it didn't matter much.

For what it's worth, Horace and Catullus are much more enjoyable when you're not analysing the language to death.