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Book Synopsis
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 poems
  • Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him
  • Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence


Table of Contents

List of Illustrations x

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

Notes on Contributors xx

1 Introduction 1
Marilyn B. Skinner

Part I The Text and the Collection 11

2 History and Transmission of the Text 13
J. L. Butrica

3 Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present 35
Marilyn B. Skinner

Part II Contexts of Production 55

4 The Valerii Catulli of Verona 57
T. P. Wiseman

5 The Contemporary Political Context 72
David Konstan

6 The Intellectual Climate 92
Andrew Feldherr

7 Gender and Masculinity 111
Elizabeth Manwell

Part III Influences 129

8 Catullus and Sappho 131
Ellen Greene

9 Catullus and Callimachus 151
Peter E. Knox

Part IV Stylistics 173

10 Neoteric Poetics 175
W. R. Johnson

11 Elements of Style in Catullus 190
George A. Sheets

12 Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse 212
Brian A. Krostenko

Part V Poems and Groups of Poems 233

13 Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, and Utility of a Concept 235
William W. Batstone

14 The Lesbia Poems 254
Julia T. Dyson Hejduk

15 Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus’ Wedding Poems 276
Vassiliki Panoussi

16 Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of Catullus 64 293
Jeri Blair DeBrohun

17 Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses 314
Elena Theodorakopoulos

18 Social Commentary and Political Invective 333
W. Jeffrey Tatum

Part VI Reception 355

19 Catullus and Horace 357
Randall L. B. McNeill

20 Catullus and Vergil 377
Christopher Nappa

21 Catullus and Roman Love Elegy 399
Paul Allen Miller

22 Catullus and Martial 418
Sven Lorenz

23 Catullus in the Renaissance 439
Julia Haig Gaisser

24 The Modern Reception of Catullus 461
Brian Arkins

Part VII Pedagogy 479

25 Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum 481
Ronnie Ancona and Judith P. Hallett

26 Catullus in the College Classroom 503
Daniel H. Garrison

Part VIII Translation 521

27 Translating Catullus 523
Elizabeth Vandiver

Consolidated Bibliography 542

General Index 568

Index Locorum 585

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 23/11/2010
      ISBN13: 9781444339253, 978-1444339253
      ISBN10: 1444339257
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 poems
      • Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him
      • Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence


      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations x

      Acknowledgments xi

      Abbreviations xiii

      Notes on Contributors xx

      1 Introduction 1
      Marilyn B. Skinner

      Part I The Text and the Collection 11

      2 History and Transmission of the Text 13
      J. L. Butrica

      3 Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present 35
      Marilyn B. Skinner

      Part II Contexts of Production 55

      4 The Valerii Catulli of Verona 57
      T. P. Wiseman

      5 The Contemporary Political Context 72
      David Konstan

      6 The Intellectual Climate 92
      Andrew Feldherr

      7 Gender and Masculinity 111
      Elizabeth Manwell

      Part III Influences 129

      8 Catullus and Sappho 131
      Ellen Greene

      9 Catullus and Callimachus 151
      Peter E. Knox

      Part IV Stylistics 173

      10 Neoteric Poetics 175
      W. R. Johnson

      11 Elements of Style in Catullus 190
      George A. Sheets

      12 Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse 212
      Brian A. Krostenko

      Part V Poems and Groups of Poems 233

      13 Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, and Utility of a Concept 235
      William W. Batstone

      14 The Lesbia Poems 254
      Julia T. Dyson Hejduk

      15 Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus’ Wedding Poems 276
      Vassiliki Panoussi

      16 Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of Catullus 64 293
      Jeri Blair DeBrohun

      17 Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses 314
      Elena Theodorakopoulos

      18 Social Commentary and Political Invective 333
      W. Jeffrey Tatum

      Part VI Reception 355

      19 Catullus and Horace 357
      Randall L. B. McNeill

      20 Catullus and Vergil 377
      Christopher Nappa

      21 Catullus and Roman Love Elegy 399
      Paul Allen Miller

      22 Catullus and Martial 418
      Sven Lorenz

      23 Catullus in the Renaissance 439
      Julia Haig Gaisser

      24 The Modern Reception of Catullus 461
      Brian Arkins

      Part VII Pedagogy 479

      25 Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum 481
      Ronnie Ancona and Judith P. Hallett

      26 Catullus in the College Classroom 503
      Daniel H. Garrison

      Part VIII Translation 521

      27 Translating Catullus 523
      Elizabeth Vandiver

      Consolidated Bibliography 542

      General Index 568

      Index Locorum 585

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