Catullus and His World: A ReappraisalCambridge University Press, 1987 - 304 páginas This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them. Catullus' own social background, the circumstances of the literary life of his time, the true extent of his works and the variety of audiences he addressed - these and other questions are explored by Professor Wiseman with new and startling results. Contemporary high society and politics are illustrated through Clodia and Caelius Rufus, considered not as mere adjuncts to Catullus' story but as significant historical personalities in their own right. A final chapter on nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of Catullus' world shows how anachronistic preconceptions have prevented a proper understanding of it, and made this radical reappraisal necessary. Anyone with a serious interest in Latin literature or Roman history will want to read this book. Students in the upper levels of school or at university will find it essential background reading to their work on Catullus and Cicero's Pro Caelio. |
Contenido
A WORLD NOT OURS | 1 |
CRUELTY | 5 |
SEXUAL MORES | 10 |
CLODIA PLEASURE AND SWAY | 15 |
NOBILIUM LUDI | 26 |
MULIER POTENS | 38 |
IMMODERATA MULIER | 49 |
THE TRIAL OF MARCUS CAELIUS | 54 |
THE THEME IN THE BACKGROUND | 147 |
ALLIUS HOUSE | 157 |
THE EPIGRAMS | 164 |
REFLECTIONS IN MYTH | 175 |
THE UNKNOWN CATULLUS | 183 |
EXTERNAL EVIDENCE | 189 |
ATTIS AT THE MEGALESIA | 198 |
FAREWELL CATULLUS | 206 |
THE ACCUSED | 62 |
THE PROSECUTION | 69 |
THE DEFENCE | 75 |
THE AFTERMATH | 90 |
CATULLUS IN CONTEXT | 92 |
FINANCIAL ATTITUDES | 101 |
THE TRANSPADANE BACKGROUND | 107 |
THE BEAUTY OF INNOCENCE | 115 |
THE POET AND HIS AUDIENCE | 124 |
LESBIA ILLA | 130 |
THE INTRODUCTORY SEQUENCE | 137 |
THE AFTERLIFE OF LESBIA | 211 |
MORALISERS | 218 |
CYNICS | 226 |
WILDER S CLODIA | 233 |
SOME POSTWAR VERSIONS | 241 |
APPENDIX | 246 |
ENDNOTES | 263 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 273 |
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Términos y frases comunes
aedile Alexandria allusion amores Appendix Appius Ariadne atque Atratinus Atticus Attis Baiae Bolisani brother C. H. Sisson Cael Caelius Caesar Callimachus Calvus Cato Catullan Cèbe century B.C. Cicero Claudius Clodia collection context Crassus Cybele Delos Dio XXXIX evidence Gaius Galli Gellius girls goddess Greek Hellenistic hymn ibid invective lady Laodamia late-Republican Latin Lesbia literary Livy London lover ludi Macr Mamurra marriage Martial Metellus Celer mihi mime mistress mulier Nonius obscene Ovid patrician Claudii Pliny Pliny NH Plut Poems of Catullus poet poetry political Pompey Pompey's Priapus prosecution Ptolemy puella PULCHER Puteoli quae quam Quint quod quotation reader reference Roman Rome Sappho Schol Senate Sest sexual Shackleton Bailey Sirmio slave Suet Suetonius temple theatre theme tibi translation Varro Veranius Verona Veronensis Verr VIII Wiseman woman