The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

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Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual context of first-century BC Rome. One of the so-called 'new poets', Catullus had a profound effect on subsequent Latin poetry, and this is explored especially for the Augustan age and the late first century AD. A significant part of the volume is concerned with Catullus' survival into the modern world. There are discussions both of the manuscript tradition and of the interpretative scholarship which has been devoted to his poetry, as well as his reception by renaissance and later poets. Students in particular will appreciate this book. FM Contents Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction Situating Catullus Literary Liaisons Catullan Intertextuality Gender and Sexuality Catullan Themes Language and Style Catullus and Metre Catulli Carmina Catullus and Augustan Poetry Rewriting Catullus in the Flavian Age The Manuscripts and Transmission of the Text Appendix Editions and Commentaries Catullus in the Renaissance Catullus and Poetry in English since 1750 Abbreviations and Bibliography Index Locorum General Index