A Companion To Catullus

618 Pages·2007·2.873 MB·English

by  Skinner, Marilyn B(Editor)

A COMPANION
TO CATULLUS
Edited by
Marilyn B. Skinner

A COMPANION TO CATULLUS
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A COMPANION
TO CATULLUS
Edited by
Marilyn B. Skinner
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Contents
List of Illustrations x
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Contributors xx
1 Introduction 1
MarilynB. Skinner
Part I The Text and the Collection 11
2 Historyand Transmission of the Text 13
J. L. Butrica
3 AuthorialArrangement of the Collection:
Debate Past and Present 35
MarilynB. Skinner
Part II Contexts of Production 55
4 TheValerii Catulli of Verona 57
T.P.Wiseman
5 TheContemporaryPolitical Context 72
David Konstan
6 TheIntellectual Climate 92
Andrew Feldherr
viii Contents
7 Gender andMasculinity 111
ElizabethManwell
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 Stylein Catullus 190
GeorgeA. 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, andUtility of a Concept 235
William W.Batstone
14 TheLesbia Poems 254
Julia T.Dyson
15 Sexualityand Ritual: Catullus’ Wedding Poems 276
Vassiliki Panoussi
16 Catullan Intertextuality:Apollonius and
theAllusive Plot of Catullus 64 293
Jeri Blair DeBrohun
17 Poem 68: Love and Death, and
theGifts ofVenus and the Muses 314
Elena Theodorakopoulos
18 Social Commentaryand Political Invective 333
W.Jeffrey Tatum
Part VI Reception 355
19 Catullus and Horace 357
RandallL. B. McNeill