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Catullan Questions Revisited

Catullan Questions Revisited

Hardcover

Ancient History General

ISBN10: 1009235745
ISBN13: 9781009235747
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 20 2022
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus' life and work. 'Lesbia' was not a woman in her thirties, as has been believed for 150 years, but a girl only recently married; Catullus' poems were written for performance, private or public, and it was only in 54 BC, at what he saw as the turning-point of his life, that he collected their texts into a sequence of probably seven volumes. His subsequent literary career, equally successful but much less well attested, was as a 'mime'-dramatist. This book is intended for everyone who is interested in poetry and history, and who does not believe that literary texts exist in a vacuum.

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