A long ekphrastic digression in this (*) dactylic hexameter poem describes a coverlet depicting Ariadne abandoned by Theseus, but it is nominally about the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
A woman in this poem is compared to a "Bacchante's stone statue," and doesn't care that her clothes have fallen to her feet so that her hair is "not in place under delicate scarf," her bosom is "not covered by thin outer dress," and her "milk-white breasts" are "not bound under smooth inner dress." The ending of this poem comments on how humanity's sins convinced the gods no longer to visit us, "nor endure the touch of clear daylight." This poem opens by mentioning pine trees from Mount Pelion swimming through the waters of Neptune, an oblique description of the Argo. A long ekphrastic digression in this (*) dactylic hexameter poem describes a coverlet depicting Ariadne abandoned by Theseus, but it is nominally about the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. For 10 points, name this epyllion by Catullus, his longest poem.
A woman in this poem is compared to a "Bacchante's stone statue," and doesn't care that her clothes have fallen to her feet so that her hair is "not in place under delicate scarf," her bosom is "not covered by thin outer dress," and her "milk-white breasts" are "not bound under smooth inner dress."
Catullus 64