A companion to Catullus / edited by Marilyn B. Skinner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Skinner, Marilyn B., editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catullus, Gaius Valerius--Criticism and interpretation.

Catullus, Gaius Valerius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman 'lyric poets'Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poemsGrounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around himChapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Half title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I The Text and the Collection; Chapter 2: History and Transmission of the Text; Chapter 3: Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present; Part II Contexts of Production; Chapter 4: The Valerii Catulli of Verona; Chapter 5: The Contemporary Political Context; Chapter 6: The Intellectual Climate; Chapter 7: Gender and Masculinity; Part III Influences; Chapter 8: Catullus and Sappho

Chapter 9: Catullus and CallimachusPart IV Stylistics; Chapter 10: Neoteric Poetics; Chapter 11: Elements of Style in Catullus; Chapter 12: Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse; Part V Poems and Groups of Poems; Chapter 13: Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, and Utility of a Concept; Chapter 14: The Lesbia Poems; Chapter 15: Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus' Wedding Poems; Chapter 16: Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of Catullus; Chapter 17: Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses

Chapter 18: Social Commentary and Political InvectivePart VI Reception; Chapter 19: Catullus and Horace; Chapter 20: Catullus and Vergil; Chapter 21: Catullus and Roman Love Elegy; Chapter 22: Catullus and Martial; Chapter 23: Catullus in the Renaissance; Chapter 24: The Modern Reception of Catullus; Part VII Pedagogy; Chapter 25: Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum; Chapter 26: Catullus in the College Classroom; Part VIII Translation; Chapter 27: Translating Catullus; Consolidated Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781444393781

1444393782

OCLC:

811493280