This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a
reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of
manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid
for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based
on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to
focus on the relationship with Lesbia and to ignore the majority of
the shorter poems, which are instead directed at other men.
Professor Wray approaches these poems in the light of more recent
models for understanding male social interaction in the premodern
Mediterranean, placing them in their specifically Roman historical
context while bringing out their strikingly 'postmodern' qualities.
The result is an alternative way of reading the fiercely aggressive
and delicately refined agonism performed in Catullus' shorter
poems. All Latin and Greek quoted is supplied with an English
translation.
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