Catullus and his World
A Reappraisal
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 September 1986
- ISBN 9780521319683
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 217x139x18 mm
- Weight 360 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 b/w illus. 0
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Long description:
This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them. Catullus' own social background, the circumstances of the literary life of his time, the true extent of his works and the variety of audiences he addressed - these and other questions are explored by Professor Wiseman with new and startling results. Contemporary high society and politics are illustrated through Clodia and Caelius Rufus, considered not as mere adjuncts to Catullus' story but as significant historical personalities in their own right. A final chapter on nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of Catullus' world shows how anachronistic preconceptions have prevented a proper understanding of it, and made this radical reappraisal necessary. Anyone with a serious interest in Latin literature or Roman history will want to read this book. Students in the upper levels of school or at university will find it essential background reading to their work on Catullus and Cicero's Pro Caelio.
'T. P. Wiseman's Catullus and his World must be one of the most readable and exciting new books about a Latin poet for many years ... [It] can confidently be recommended to anyone interested in Catullus and not just to the professional classical scholar or student.' Francis Cairns, The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. A world not ours; 2. Clodia: pleasure and sway; 3. The trial of Marcus Caelius; 4. Catullus in context; 5. 'Lesbia Illa'; 6. The unknown Catullus; 7. The afterlife of Lesbia; Appendix; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index; Plates at end.
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