Catullus

by Quesnay, Ian Du; Woodman, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781107000834
• ISBN10: 1107000831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus, one of ancient Rome's most favourite and best loved poets. Some chapters focus on the collection as a whole and the interrelationship of various poems; others deal with intertextuality and translation and Catullus' response to his Greek predecessors, both classical and Hellenistic. Two of the key subjects are the communication of desire and the presentation of the real world. Some chapters provide analyses of individual poems, others discuss how Catullus' poetry was read by Virgil and Ovid. A wide variety of critical approaches is on offer, and in the Epilogue the editors provide a provocative survey of the issues raised by the volume.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Callimachus in Verona: Catullus and Alexandrian poetry

Representation and the materiality of the book in Catullus's polymetrics

Booking lovers: desire and design in Catullus

Catullus and the Garland of Meleager

Poem 45: the wooing of Acme and Septimius

A covering letter: poem 65

Three problems in poem 66

Putting on the yoke of necessity: myth, intertextuality and moral agency in poem 68

Virgil's Catullan plots

Catullan contexts in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Epilogue

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