Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader

305 Pages·2004·2.42 MB·English

by  Ronnie Ancona

Writing Passion

Writing Passion

A Catullus Reader

R A
ONNIE NCONA
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
Wauconda, Illinois USA
In-House Editor
Laurie Haight Keenan
Typography, Page and Cover Design
Adam Phillip Velez
Cartography
Margaret W. Pearce
Latin Text
D. F. S. Thomson
Catullus: Edited with a Textual and Interpretative Commentary
University of Toronto Press 1997
Reprinted with permission of University of Toronto Press
Cover illustration
Pablo Picasso, Girl Reading at a Table, 1934.
© 2004 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn,
in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1995 (1996.403.1)
Photograph © 1996 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Writing Passion
A Catullus Reader
by Ronnie Ancona
© 2004 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
1000 Brown Street
Wauconda, IL 60084 USA
www.bolchazy.com
Printed in the United States of America
2006
by United Graphics
ISBN-13: 978-0-86516-482-6
ISBN-10: 0-86516-482-7
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
Writing passion : a Catullus reader / Ronnie Ancona.
p. cm.
“Intended for use by students at the intermediate college level or the advanced high
school level. The selections from Catullus are the required readings in Catullus for the
Advanced Placement Latin Literature Examination given by the Educational Testing
Service”--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-86516-482-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Latin language--Readers. 2. Elegiac poetry, Latin. 3. Love poetry, Latin. 4.
Epigrams, Latin. 5. Rome--Poetry. I. Ancona, Ronnie, 1951- II. Title.
PA6274.A25 2004
874’.01--dc22
2004008331
This book is dedicated to three of my foreign language mentors:
Helena Percas de Ponseti, Spanish professor at Grinnell College, who,
when she shared a copy of an article she had just published on Cervantes,
fi rst revealed to me that teachers do scholarship
Roslyn Grant, friend, colleague, and Department Head at The Bush
School, Seatt le, Washington, who probably taught me in my very fi rst
Latin teaching job more about foreign language teaching, despite the
fact that she taught Spanish and French, not Latin, than I have learned
from anyone else since
Charles Babcock, professor and dissertation adviser at Ohio State
University, now friend, who consistently encouraged my interest in
becoming both a Latin scholar and a Latin teacher

Contents
Preface ...................................................................................................................................ix
Introduction ......................................................................................................................xv
Bibliography .....................................................................................................................xix
Latin Text with Notes and Vocabulary ..................................................................3
Meters of the Poems ....................................................................................................163
Metrical Terms, Tropes or Figures of Thought,
and Rhetorical Figures or Figures of Speech .........................................169
Latin Text without Notes or Vocabulary ..........................................................173
Vocabulary .......................................................................................................................221
vii
Maps and Illustrations
General Reference Map ..................................................................................................2
Girl with Pigeons ...............................................................................................................6
Map for Poem 4 ................................................................................................................14
Silver Coin of Cyrene ....................................................................................................23
Map for Poem 11 ..............................................................................................................34
Map for Poem 36 ..............................................................................................................71
Preface
I would like to thank Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers for inviting me to
write a text on an author I have been reading and thinking about since
I fi rst encountered him in an undergraduate Latin Lyric Poetry class
at the University of Washington taught by Professor William Grum-
mel. Shortly thereaft er I taught some Catullus at The Bush School in
Seatt le, Washington. In graduate school at Ohio State University I spent
many hours talking about Catullus with my fellow graduate student
and friend, Caroline Perkins, and studied him with Professor John Da-
vis. I quickly found in my extensive teaching experience there how ap-
proachable Catullus could be for Latin students even at the elementary
and intermediate levels of Latin. Since that time I have had the pleasure
of teaching Catullus numerous times at the advanced undergraduate
level at Hunter College, in the PhD program at the Graduate Center of
the City University of New York, and, as a College Board consultant,
at Advanced Placement* Workshops for Latin Teachers. I would like to
thank my students for their many good and challenging questions over
the years. The opportunity to write this commentary was a welcome
one to me. I had just completed a similar commentary on Horace and
liked writing it, while I had recently moved towards scholarly work on
Catullus, having all along been interested in his infl uence on Horace. I
had been teaching and thinking about the poems for many years and
the chance to explore them in the detailed manner of a commentator
has allowed me to become even more familiar with both the poems and
the recent work writt en about them. Since the approach I have taken
in this text is modeled on that of my Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9
(Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 1999), I would like to thank those who
have given me feedback on that text for comments that have proved
useful in writing its successor.
* AP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not
involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.