Catullus
Subtitle: poems, books, readers
By: edited by Ian M. Le M. Du Quesnay and Tony Woodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781107000834
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Influence
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Prologue; 1. Callimachus in Verona: Catullus and Alexandrian poetry / Damien P. Nelis; 2. Representation and the materiality of the book in Catullus's polymetrics / Denis Feeney; 3. Booking lovers: desire and design in Catullus / G.O. Hutchinson; 4. Catullus and the Garland of Meleager / Kathryn Gutzwiller; 5. Poem 45: the wooing of Acme and Septimius / Francis Cairns; 6. A covering letter: poem 65 / Tony Woodman; 7. Three problems in poem 66 / Ian M. Le M. Du Quesnay; 8. Putting on the yoke of necessity: myth, intertextuality and moral agency in poem 68 / Monica R. Gale; 9. Virgil's Catullan plots / Philip Hardie; 10. Catullan contexts in Ovid's Metamorphoses / K. Sara Myers; Epilogue.