The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

Ian Du Quesnay was formerly Bursar of Newnham College and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on Latin poetry and coedited, with Tony Woodman, Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (Cambridge, 2012). Tony Woodman is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Emeritus Professor of Latin at Durham University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He has published twenty-five books and numerous articles on many aspects of Latin poetry and prose, especially Horace and Latin historiography, and coedited, with Ian Du Quesnay, Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (Cambridge, 2012). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (2010).

Introduction; 1. Situating Catullus Cynthia Damon; 2. Literary liaisons Tony Woodman; 3. Catullan intertextuality Richard F. Thomas; 4. Gender and sexuality K. Sara Myers; 5. Catullan themes Bruce Gibson; 6. Language and style Anna Chahoud; 7. Catullus and metre David Butterfield; 8. Catulli carmina Ian du Quesnay; 9. Catullus and Augustan poetry Monica R. Gale; 10. Rewriting Catullus in the flavian age Carole Newlands; 11. The manuscripts and transmission of the text S.P. Oakley; 12. Editions and commentaries Dániel Kiss; 13. Catullus in the renaissance Alex Wong; 14. Catullus and poetry in english since 1750 Stephen Harrison; Abbreviations and bibliography; Index locorum; General index.