Book description
Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His
emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as
strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and
historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader
and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles.
- Places Catullus in a social, historical, and literary context
- Examines Catallus's style and subjects, and provides a literary
introduction to his major themes of love, social life, and politics
- Discusses the reception of the poems by translators and interpreters
Julia Haig Gaisser
is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn
Mawr College, and a past president of the American Philological
Association. She is the author of
Catullus and His Renaissance Readers
(1993),
Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A
Renaissance Humanist and His World
(1999), and
The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in
Transmission and Reception
(2008), and the editor of
Catullus in English
(2001), and
Catullus
(2007).
