A Companion to Catullus (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

A Companion to Catullus (2007)
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BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 3
ISBN-13: 9781405135337......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 12
General Abbreviations......Page 14
Roman Praenomina......Page 15
Roman Authors and Works......Page 16
Works of Secondary Scholarship......Page 19
Notes on Contributors......Page 21
CHAPTER ONE - Introduction......Page 28
NOTES......Page 34
WORKS CITED......Page 35
PART I - The Text and the Collection......Page 38
CHAPTER TWO - History and Transmission of the Text......Page 40
The Text in Antiquity......Page 41
The Text in the Middle Ages......Page 51
The Text in the Renaissance and Beyond......Page 57
WORKS CITED......Page 60
CHAPTER THREE - Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present......Page 62
Emergence of the Question......Page 63
Charting the liber Catulli......Page 66
Aesthetic Axioms......Page 68
New Directions......Page 73
Conclusion......Page 75
NOTES......Page 76
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 77
WORKS CITED......Page 78
PART II - Contexts of Production......Page 82
The Transpadanes......Page 84
The Valerii Catulli......Page 86
Remembering Catullus......Page 92
WORKS CITED......Page 97
CHAPTER FIVE - The Contemporary Political Context......Page 99
NOTES......Page 112
WORKS CITED......Page 115
CHAPTER SIX - The Intellectual Climate......Page 119
Material Culture?......Page 120
Catullus and the Golden Fleece......Page 126
Between Verona and Rome......Page 130
NOTES......Page 134
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 135
WORKS CITED......Page 136
CHAPTER SEVEN - Gender and Masculinity......Page 138
Studying Masculinity, or Why Should We Care about Men?......Page 139
Studying Roman Masculinity or Why Should We Care about Dead White Men?......Page 140
Softness......Page 143
Hardness......Page 147
Rewriting Masculinity......Page 152
NOTES......Page 153
WORKS CITED......Page 154
PART III - Influences......Page 156
CHAPTER EIGHT - Catullus and Sappho......Page 158
Celebrating Lesbia, Celebrating Love......Page 161
Catullus Translating Sappho......Page 163
Catullus 11 and Sappho’s ‘‘Erotic Flowers’’......Page 169
NOTES......Page 174
WORKS CITED......Page 175
CHAPTER NINE - Catullus and Callimachus......Page 178
Callimachus......Page 179
Callimachus in Rome......Page 183
Callimachus in the Polymetrics and Epigrams: Callimachean Poetics......Page 184
Catullus and the Aetia......Page 187
Catullus and the Iambi......Page 190
Callimachean Narrative in Catullus......Page 192
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 195
WORKS CITED......Page 196
PART IV - Stylistics......Page 200
CHAPTER TEN - Neoteric Poetics......Page 202
WORKS CITED......Page 215
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Elements of Style in Catullus......Page 217
Archaism......Page 218
Vulgarism......Page 221
Grecism......Page 224
Diminutives......Page 225
Genre and meter......Page 226
Meter and rhythm......Page 229
Rhythm and sound......Page 231
Pragmatic Issues......Page 232
Framing the discourse......Page 233
Positioning the reader......Page 234
Conclusion......Page 235
NOTES......Page 236
WORKS CITED......Page 237
Some Catullan Keywords......Page 239
Catullus’ Keywords and Political Aestheticism......Page 241
A New Erotics......Page 242
A New Social Order......Page 244
A New Poetics......Page 246
A Total Ethos......Page 248
The Difficulties of Reading Catullus (1)......Page 252
The Difficulties of Reading Catullus (2)......Page 254
Conclusion......Page 255
ACKNOWLEDGMENT......Page 256
NOTES......Page 257
WORKS CITED......Page 258
PART V - Poems and Groups of Poems......Page 260
Definition and Examples......Page 262
Catullus 1......Page 263
Catullus 116......Page 264
Background......Page 265
Defining the Poetry Book or Sequence......Page 267
Poems about Poets and Poetry......Page 269
Performing the Program......Page 272
Conclusion and Redefinition......Page 276
NOTES......Page 278
WORKS CITED......Page 279
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Lesbia Poems......Page 281
The Polymetric Lesbia......Page 282
The Poem 68 Lesbia......Page 293
The Epigrammatic Lesbia......Page 296
Coda......Page 300
WORKS CITED......Page 301
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus’ Wedding Poems......Page 303
Female sexuality......Page 305
Male sexuality......Page 309
Sex and the ideal marriage......Page 310
Poem 62: Resistance to Marriage......Page 312
Ideal Marriage for Family and State......Page 314
NOTES......Page 317
WORKS CITED......Page 318
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of Catullus 64......Page 320
The Opening of Catullus 64: An Apollonian Proem......Page 322
A Catullan praeteritio begins as the mini-Argonautica opens......Page 323
A Catullan praeteritio continues: the Apollonian Argonautica is interrupted......Page 325
Apollonius’ Peleus and Thetis: Catullan compression and revision......Page 328
Catullus’ praeteritio (and mini-Argonautica) end, and his new poem begins......Page 330
Catullus’ Epyllion Begins: The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis......Page 333
Conclusions (and Catullus’ Epilogue)......Page 336
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 338
WORKS CITED......Page 339
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses......Page 341
One Poem or Two?......Page 342
Friendship and Reciprocity in 68: What Are the Gifts of Venus?......Page 343
Absent Friends......Page 345
The Praise of Allius: Writing and Memory......Page 347
Allius’ officium......Page 349
Laodamia and the Grave and the Pit......Page 350
The Grandfather and the Dove......Page 353
Catullus’ Wondrous Night......Page 354
NOTES......Page 356
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 357
WORKS CITED......Page 358
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Social Commentary and Political Invective......Page 360
Roman Invective......Page 361
Catullan Invective......Page 364
Caesar and the First Trimvirate......Page 365
Seek Noble Friends......Page 371
Conclusion......Page 377
WORKS CITED......Page 378
PART VI - Reception......Page 382
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Catullus and Horace......Page 384
Origins and Background......Page 385
Connections of Meter......Page 386
Connections of Language and Phrasing......Page 390
Connections of Subject and Theme......Page 395
Points of Contrast......Page 397
Horatian Silence and Horatian Response......Page 400
WORKS CITED......Page 402
Eclogues......Page 404
Georgics......Page 407
Aeneid......Page 408
Catullus 64......Page 409
Catullus 66......Page 414
Catullus 11......Page 415
Catullus 101......Page 419
Vergil’s Catullus......Page 420
NOTES......Page 421
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 422
WORKS CITED......Page 423
Elegiac Testimonia......Page 426
Formal Similarities......Page 428
Thematic Similarities......Page 430
The Problem of Genre......Page 431
Catullus 68......Page 437
NOTES......Page 440
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 441
WORKS CITED......Page 442
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - Catullus and Martial......Page 445
NOTES......Page 461
WORKS CITED......Page 462
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - Catullus in the Renaissance......Page 466
Martial’s Legacy......Page 467
The First Interpreters......Page 472
Catullus at the University of Rome......Page 477
The French Connection......Page 481
Conclusion......Page 484
WORKS CITED......Page 485
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - The Modern Reception of Catullus......Page 488
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 503
WORKS CITED......Page 504
PART VII - Pedagogy......Page 506
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum......Page 508
Catullus in the United States Secondary Curriculum......Page 511
Catullus in the British Secondary Curriculum......Page 519
Final Thoughts......Page 523
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 524
NOTES......Page 525
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 527
WORKS CITED......Page 528
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - Catullus in the College Classroom......Page 530
Translation: The ‘‘Kid Brother’’ Test......Page 533
Doing Verbs......Page 534
Commentaries......Page 535
Reality Checks......Page 536
Obscenity......Page 537
Good and Bad Memorization......Page 538
Language, Persona, and Personality......Page 539
Arranging the Poems......Page 540
The Poetry of Scandal......Page 541
High and Low Diction......Page 542
Conclusion......Page 543
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 544
WORKS CITED......Page 545
PART VIII - Translation......Page 548
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - Translating Catullus......Page 550
‘‘Poetry is What is Lost in Translation’’......Page 551
The Problem of Meter......Page 552
Vocabulary and Lexical Fidelity......Page 554
Sexual Invective and Obscenity......Page 556
When the Sound Is the Sense......Page 560
Carmina Battiadae: The Alexandrian Catullus......Page 562
Catullus Translates......Page 564
NOTES......Page 565
WORKS CITED......Page 567
Consolidated Bibliography......Page 569
General Index......Page 595
Index Locorum......Page 612