-- Introduction on Catullus and his literary/historical/social context -- Line-by-line vocabulary grammatical, and background notes, same page and facing -- Description of all the meters -- Metrical terms tropes, and rhetorical figures defined, with examples from the Catullus poems -- Extensive bibliography -- Second Latin text of poems without ...
In Horace's "Odes" love cannot last. Is the poet unromantic, as some critics claim? Is he merely realistic? Or is he, as Ronnie Ancona contends, relating the erotic to time in a more complex and interesting way than either of these positions allows? Rejecting both the notion that Horace fails as a love poet because he undermines the romantic ideal ...
In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to specifically focus on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either ...
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