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.
Author(s): Ian Du Quesnay; Tony Woodman
Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 318
cop......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 7
Chapter 10 - Catullan contexts in Ovid’s Metamorphoses......Page 0
Chapter 1 - Callimachus in Verona......Page 10
Chapter 2 - Representation and the materiality of the book in the polymetrics......Page 38
Chapter 3 - Booking lovers......Page 57
Chapter 4 - Catullus and the Garland of Meleager......Page 88
Chapter 5 - Poem 45......Page 121
Chapter 6 - A covering letter......Page 139
Chapter 7 - Three problems in Poem 66......Page 162
Chapter 8 - Putting on the yoke of necessity......Page 193
Chapter 9 - Virgil's Catullan plots......Page 221
Epilogue......Page 263
Abbreviations and bibliography......Page 281
Index locorum......Page 309
General index......Page 312
