Catullus as love poet / John Kevin Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, John Kevin, 1928- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catullus, Gaius Valerius--Criticism and interpretation.

Catullus, Gaius Valerius.

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (51 pages)

Place of Publication:

Nordhausen : Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2018.

Summary:

Catullus is one of the most popular of Classical Latin authors because he offers poems easily presented to a beginners' class: not weighty and serious but short and humorous. But this is not the whole truth. He is also deeply committed to the Roman Republic, its traditions, the disaster of Pompey's defeat and Caesar's triumph, the decay of public morality. This is what Newman already emphasised in his Roman Catullus and the Modification of the Alexandrian Sensibility (Weidman, Hildesheim 1990, Pp. 483) and tries again to emphasise for the more general reader here. John Kevin Newman, born in 1928, made his first acquaintance with Classical scholarship at Oxford in 1946-52, where Eduard Fraenkel and Rudolf Pfeiffer were still lecturing. After teaching for the Benedictines at Downside Abbey for some years, in 1969 he accepted a professorship at the University of Illinois, from which he has now retired. He has published eight books and over a hundred articles on Classical themes.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783959489270

3959489277