Catullus

Poems, Books, Readers

Ian M. le M. Du Quesnay, Tony Woodman, Ian M. le M. Du Quesnay, Tony Woodman

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781107000834
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139786126
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge, 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, while 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

• Cover
• CATULLUS
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• CHAPTER 1 Callimachus in Verona: Catullus and Alexandrian poetry
• CHAPTER 2 Representation and the materiality of the book in the polymetrics
• CHAPTER 3 Booking lovers: Desire and design in Catullus
• CHAPTER 4 Catullus and the Garland of Meleager
• CHAPTER 5 Poem 45: The wooing of Acme and Septimius
• CHAPTER 6 A covering letter: Poem 65
• CHAPTER 7 Three problems in Poem 66
• CHAPTER 8 Putting on the yoke of necessity: Myth, intertextuality and moral agency in Catullus 68
• CHAPTER 9 Virgil's Catullan plots
• CHAPTER 10 Catullan contexts in Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Epilogue
• Abbreviations and bibliography
• Index locorum
• General Index