Catullus

AvJulia Haig Gaisser

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles. Places Catullus in a social, historical, and literary contextExamines Catallus's style and subjects, and provides a literary introduction to his major themes of love, social life, and politicsDiscusses the reception of the poems by translators and interpreters

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-02-09
Mått:154 x 230 x 13 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781118255353

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Mer om författaren

Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, and a past president of the American Philological Association. She is the author of Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999), and The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), and the editor of Catullus in English (2001), and Catullus (2007).

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures viiiPreface ix1 Introduction: The Young Poet in Rome 12 Poetry Books 223 The Catullan Persona 454 What Makes It Poetry 725 Poetic Architecture 1006 Songs for Mixed Voices: Allusions, Intertexts, and Translations 1337 Receiving Catullus 1: From Antiquity through the Sixteenth Century 1668 Receiving Catullus 2: England and America 194Appendix 1 Catullus’ Meters 222Appendix 2 Glossary of Metrical and Rhetorical Terms 223Bibliography 225General Index 235Index of Catullus’ Poems 242