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The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature

Editors:
Ian Du Quesnay, University of Cambridge
Tony Woodman, University of Virginia

Cynthia Damon, Tony Woodman, Richard F. Thomas, K. Sara Myers, Bruce Gibson, Anna Chahoud, David Butterfield, Ian du Quesnay, Monica R. Gale, Carole Newlands, S.P. Oakley, Dániel Kiss, Alex Wong, Stephen Harrison

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Date Published: April 2021
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781107193567

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Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual context of first-century BC Rome. One of the so-called 'new poets', Catullus had a profound effect on subsequent Latin poetry, and this is explored especially for the Augustan age and the late first century AD. A significant part of the volume is concerned with Catullus' survival into the modern world. There are discussions both of the manuscript tradition and of the interpretative scholarship which has been devoted to his poetry, as well as his reception by renaissance and later poets. Students in particular will appreciate this book.
- · Comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular poets of classical antiquity · Treats the major themes of and contexts for Catullus' poetry and considers its afterlife from antiquity to the present · Features an international cast of leading scholars as its contributors
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'… advanced students, teachers, and researchers looking to orient themselves in the scholarship on Catullus will benefit … Recommended.' M. L. Goldman, Choice Magazine

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- Date Published: April 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107193567
- length: 410 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.69kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Situating Catullus Cynthia Damon
2. Literary liaisons Tony Woodman
3. Catullan intertextuality Richard F. Thomas
4. Gender and sexuality K. Sara Myers
5. Catullan themes Bruce Gibson
6. Language and style Anna Chahoud
7. Catullus and metre David Butterfield
8. Catulli carmina Ian du Quesnay
9. Catullus and Augustan poetry Monica R. Gale
10. Rewriting Catullus in the flavian age Carole Newlands
11. The manuscripts and transmission of the text S.P. Oakley
12. Editions and commentaries Dániel Kiss
13. Catullus in the renaissance Alex Wong
14. Catullus and poetry in english since 1750 Stephen Harrison
Abbreviations and bibliography
Index locorum
General index.
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Editors
Ian Du Quesnay, University of Cambridge
Ian Du Quesnay was formerly Bursar of Newnham College and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on Latin poetry and coedited, with Tony Woodman, Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (Cambridge, 2012).
Tony Woodman, University of Virginia
Tony Woodman is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Emeritus Professor of Latin at Durham University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He has published twenty-five books and numerous articles on many aspects of Latin poetry and prose, especially Horace and Latin historiography, and coedited, with Ian Du Quesnay, Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (Cambridge, 2012). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (2010).
Contributors
Cynthia Damon, Tony Woodman, Richard F. Thomas, K. Sara Myers, Bruce Gibson, Anna Chahoud, David Butterfield, Ian du Quesnay, Monica R. Gale, Carole Newlands, S.P. Oakley, Dániel Kiss, Alex Wong, Stephen Harrison