Gaisser Catullus

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-29343-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World

Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets.His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readersas strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary andhistorical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modernreader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions,subjects, and styles.
* Places Catullus in a social, historical, and literarycontext
* Examines Catallus's style and subjects, and provides a literaryintroduction to his major themes of love, social life, andpolitics
* Discusses the reception of the poems by translators andinterpreters

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaisser, Julia Haig

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
Preface ix
1 Introduction: The Young Poet in Rome 1
2 Poetry Books 22
3 The Catullan Persona 45
4 What Makes It Poetry 72
5 Poetic Architecture 100
6 Songs for Mixed Voices: Allusions, Intertexts, andTranslations 133
7 Receiving Catullus 1: From Antiquity through the SixteenthCentury 166
8 Receiving Catullus 2: England and America 194
Appendix 1 Catullus' Meters 222
Appendix 2 Glossary of Metrical and Rhetorical Terms 223
Bibliography 225
General Index 235
Index of Catullus' Poems 242

Über Autor(innen)

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).