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Provides a fresh approach to the study of educational literature
from the end of the Roman Republic and early Empire. Contributions
by both internationally renowned scholars and up-and-coming voices
in the discipline.
In the past century, scholars have observed a veritable full cast
of characters from Roman comedy in the poetry of Catullus. Despite
this growing recognition of comedy's allusive presence in Catullus'
work, there has never been an extended analysis of how he engaged
with this foundational Roman genre. This book sketches a more
coherent picture of Catullus' use of Roman comedy and shows that
individual points of contact with the theatre in his corpus are
part of a larger, more sustained poetic program than has been
recognized. Roman comedy, it argues, offered Catullus a common
cultural vocabulary, drawn from the public stage and shared with
his audience, with which to explore and convey private ideas about
love, friendship, and social rivalry. It also demonstrates that
Roman comedy continued to present writers after the second century
BCE with a meaningful source of social, cultural, and artistic
value.
In the past century, scholars have observed a veritable full cast
of characters from Roman comedy in the poetry of Catullus. Despite
this growing recognition of comedy's allusive presence in Catullus'
work, there has never been an extended analysis of how he engaged
with this foundational Roman genre. This book sketches a more
coherent picture of Catullus' use of Roman comedy and shows that
individual points of contact with the theatre in his corpus are
part of a larger, more sustained poetic program than has been
recognized. Roman comedy, it argues, offered Catullus a common
cultural vocabulary, drawn from the public stage and shared with
his audience, with which to explore and convey private ideas about
love, friendship, and social rivalry. It also demonstrates that
Roman comedy continued to present writers after the second century
BCE with a meaningful source of social, cultural, and artistic
value.
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