Title: Love by the numbers
First published: 1997
Description: The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus survived antiquity by the slimmest of threads. This study concerns the controversial issue of whether the order of the collection was contrived by the poet himself. Love by the Numbers offers new and compelling evidence that Catullus shaped the work into an exquisitely interrelated whole. The aesthetic patterning is highly significant because it offers fresh solutions to long-standing problems of text and interpretation.

The development of deeply learned philological analysis in the service of elucidating widely applicable human concerns makes this book a relative rarity in the field of Classics, a work of hard scholarship that informs a human sensibility toward matters of the heart.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Cycles (Literature), Elegiac poetry, Latin, Epigrams, Latin, History, History and criticism, In literature, Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Epigrams, Latin Love poetry, Literary form, Love poetry, Latin, Catullus, gaius valerius, Love poetry, history and criticism, Epigrams, Rome, in literature
Places: Rome
People: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: PA6276 .D48 1997