This 1876 work is the magisterial commentary by the Oxford scholar
Robinson Ellis (1834 1913) on the life and oeuvre of the Roman poet
Catullus, whose work illuminates the closing years of the Roman
Republic. Our knowledge of Catullus' life derives almost entirely
from his own writings. Three manuscripts survive which contain a
collection of poems that are ascribed to him, and all three date
from the fourteenth century. Ellis considers the research that has
already been undertaken on the poet and his environment but mostly
draws on his own work in assessing the value of the Renaissance
Italian commentators who established the generally accepted poetic
canon. He traces the Greek influences that Catullus was exposed to
and discusses his use of different metres, while also speculating
on the identity of his beloved Lesbia, a controversial question
still unresolved in the twenty-first century.
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