Writing passion : a Catullus reader / Ronnie Ancona.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Catullus, Gaius Valerius.

Contributor:

Ancona, Ronnie, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Readers.

Latin language.

Elegiac poetry, Latin.

Love poetry, Latin.

Epigrams, Latin.

Rome--Poetry.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Readers (Publications)

Elegiac poetry, Latin.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

263 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Wauconda, Ill. : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004.

Summary:

-- Introduction on Catullus and his literary/historical/social context

-- Line-by-line vocabulary grammatical, and background notes, same page and facing

-- Description of all the meters

-- Metrical terms tropes, and rhetorical figures defined, with examples from the Catullus poems

-- Extensive bibliography

-- Second Latin text of poems without notes for in-class translation

-- Complete vocabulary

Contents:

Texts of poems with notes and vocabulary

Maps

Meters of the poems

Metrical terms, tropes of figures of thought, and rhetorical figures or figures of speech

Text of poems without notes or vocabulary

Vocabulary.

Notes:

"Intended for use by students at the intermediate college level or the advanced high school level. The selections from Catullus are the required readings in Catullus for the Advanced Placement Latin Literature Examination given by the Educational Testing Service"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0865164827

OCLC:

54960500