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Catullus: Poems (Paperback, New edition)
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Catullus: Poems (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Latin Texts
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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.
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