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9781405135337

A Companion to Catullus

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    9781405135337

  • ISBN10:

    1405135336

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-11
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

In this Companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman 'lyric poets' Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence

Author Biography

Marilyn B. Skinner is professor of classics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her previous publications include Catullus’ Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems (1981), Catullus in Verona (2003), Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans (co-edited, 2004), and Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture (Blackwell, 2005).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
The Text and the Collection
History and Transmission of the Text
Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present
Contexts of Production
The Valerii Catulli of Verona
The Contemporary Political Context
The Intellectual Climate
Gender and Masculinity
Influences
Catullus and Sappho
Catullus and Callimachus
Stylistics
Neoteric Poetics
Elements of Style in Catullus
Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse
Poems and Groups of Poems
Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, and Utility of a Concept
The Lesbia Poems
Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus' Wedding Poems
Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of Catullus 64
Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses
Social Commentary and Political Invective
Reception
Catullus and Horace
Catullus and Vergil
Catullus and Roman Love Elegy
Catullus and Martial
Catullus in the Renaissance
The Modern Reception of Catullus
Pedagogy
Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum
Catullus in the College Classroom
Translation
Translating Catullus
Consolidated Bibliography
Index
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