Title: Carmen 63
Description: "Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries including Cesar, Cicero, and Pompey, Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny, and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty. Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia, often identified as Clodia Metelli, a femme fatale ten years his senior and the smart adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat, who Cicero later claimed she poisoned." "This new bilingual translation of Catullus's surviving poems by Peter Green adheres to the principle that the rhythm of a poem, whether familiar or not, is among the most crucial elements for its full appreciation. Green has therefore translated all the poems - lyric, elegiac, choliambic - into stress equivalents of the original meters, and each poem appears opposite its Latin original. He also provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which Catullus lived, copious notes on the poems, a wide-ranging bibliography for further reading, and a full glossary. This edition is thus designed to bring the great pleasures of these poems to as wide an audience as possible."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Translations into English, Latin Love poetry, Poetry, Latin Epigrams, Latin Elegiac poetry, Collections, Latin Occasional verse, Attis (God), Early works to 1800, Love poetry, Latin, Latin languauge materials, Bilingual, Latin language materials, Latin poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Catullus, gaius valerius, Elegiac poetry, Love poetry, Epigrams, Latin poetry, translations into english, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Translations, Elegiac poetry, latin, Elegiac poetry, latin--translations into english, Love poetry, latin--translations into english, Epigrams, latin, Epigrams, latin--translations into english, 874.01, Pa6275.e5 g74 2005, Translations, englishcatullus, gaius valerius, Pa6275.e5 m28 1990, 874/.01, English Translations
Places: Rome
People: Gaius Valerius Catullus