
Catullus: Poems
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus(Author)
Kenneth Quinn(Editor)
Bristol Classical Press
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
978-1-85399-497-5 (ISBN)
Description
Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belonged to a group of young poets who embraced Hellenistic forms to forge a new literary style, the so-called 'neoterics'.
This comprehensive edition includes the complete, unabridged and unbowdlerised poems and is the definitive student edition of Catullus' work. The extensive introduction covers topics including the role of Catullus' literary paramour Lesbia, the few biographical certainties known about Catullus' life and other figures from the contemporary political scene. In addition to this, there is a brief overview of the poems' textual history, discussion of Catullus' style across the collection and linguistic discussions of morphology, vocabulary, syntax and metre.
The commentary notes include individual introductions and bibliographies to each poem, as well as line by line notes which translate difficult phrases and gloss obscure words. In addition to this, more detailed explanations of poetic, structural and contextual points are also provided.
This comprehensive edition includes the complete, unabridged and unbowdlerised poems and is the definitive student edition of Catullus' work. The extensive introduction covers topics including the role of Catullus' literary paramour Lesbia, the few biographical certainties known about Catullus' life and other figures from the contemporary political scene. In addition to this, there is a brief overview of the poems' textual history, discussion of Catullus' style across the collection and linguistic discussions of morphology, vocabulary, syntax and metre.
The commentary notes include individual introductions and bibliographies to each poem, as well as line by line notes which translate difficult phrases and gloss obscure words. In addition to this, more detailed explanations of poetic, structural and contextual points are also provided.
More details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85399-497-5 (9781853994975)
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Gaius Valerius Catullus | Kenneth Quinn
Catullus: Poems
E-Book
03/2015
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€35.49
Available for download

Gaius Valerius Catullus | Kenneth Quinn
Catullus: Poems
E-Book
03/2015
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€35.49
Available for download
Persons
Kenneth Quinn was a fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge and later became Professor of Classics in the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Content
Preface
Introduction
1 CATULLUS
2 LESBIA
3 THE CAELIUS AND RUFUS POEMS
4 THE COLLECTION
5 TEXT
6 STYLE
7 MORPHOLOGY
8 VOCABULARY
9 SYNTAX
10 IMAGERY
11 METRE
12 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Notes On The Introduction
Abbreviations
THE POEMS
Commentary
Index
Introduction
1 CATULLUS
2 LESBIA
3 THE CAELIUS AND RUFUS POEMS
4 THE COLLECTION
5 TEXT
6 STYLE
7 MORPHOLOGY
8 VOCABULARY
9 SYNTAX
10 IMAGERY
11 METRE
12 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Notes On The Introduction
Abbreviations
THE POEMS
Commentary
Index