A Companion to Catullus (eBook)

Marilyn B. Skinner is professor of classics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her previous publications include Catullus' Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems (1981), Catullus in Verona (2003), Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans (co-edited, 2004), and Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture (Blackwell, 2005).

List of Illustrations x

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

Notes on Contributors xx

1 Introduction 1

Marilyn B. Skinner

Part I The Text and the Collection 11

2 History and Transmission of the Text 13

J. L. Butrica

3 Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and
Present 35

Marilyn B. Skinner

Part II Contexts of Production 55

4 The Valerii Catulli of Verona 57

T. P. Wiseman

5 The Contemporary Political Context 72

David Konstan

6 The Intellectual Climate 92

Andrew Feldherr

7 Gender and Masculinity 111

Elizabeth Manwell

Part III Influences 129

8 Catullus and Sappho 131

Ellen Greene

9 Catullus and Callimachus 151

Peter E. Knox

Part IV Stylistics 173

10 Neoteric Poetics 175

W. R. Johnson

11 Elements of Style in Catullus 190

George A. Sheets

12 Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse 212

Brian A. Krostenko

Part V Poems and Groups of Poems 233

13 Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, and
Utility of a Concept 235

William W. Batstone

14 The Lesbia Poems 254

Julia T. Dyson Hejduk

15 Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus' Wedding Poems 276

Vassiliki Panoussi

16 Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot of
Catullus 64 293

Jeri Blair DeBrohun

17 Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses
314

Elena Theodorakopoulos

18 Social Commentary and Political Invective 333

W. Jeffrey Tatum

Part VI Reception 355

19 Catullus and Horace 357

Randall L. B. McNeill

20 Catullus and Vergil 377

Christopher Nappa

21 Catullus and Roman Love Elegy 399

Paul Allen Miller

22 Catullus and Martial 418

Sven Lorenz

23 Catullus in the Renaissance 439

Julia Haig Gaisser

24 The Modern Reception of Catullus 461

Brian Arkins

Part VII Pedagogy 479

25 Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum 481

Ronnie Ancona and Judith P. Hallett

26 Catullus in the College Classroom 503

Daniel H. Garrison

Part VIII Translation 521

27 Translating Catullus 523

Elizabeth Vandiver

Consolidated Bibliography 542

General Index 568

Index Locorum 585

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departure for any student starting out to explore the Catullan
oeuvre." (Sjarlene Thom, 2009)

"This Companion will be the best of companions to young Catullus
scholars, as a strong starting point for work on the most important
questions in Catullan studies." (New England Classical
Journal, February 2009)

"This Companion will be the best of companions to young Catullus
scholars, as a strong starting point for work on the most important
questions in Catullan studies." (New England Classical
Journal, February 2009)

"The volume's 27 essays are the work of a team of
internationally renowned scholars.... It deserves a place in both
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public library." (Reference Reviews, Issue 7 2008)

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(Journal of Classics Teaching)

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