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The Key

The Key more books like this

by Benita Kane Jaro

The secret life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, the greatest lyric poet of ancient Rome, is explored. Catullus was at all times a man in love, desperately, passionately, fatally. His poems embodied the spirit of a world shuddering on its foundations.

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The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice

The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice more books like this

by Michelle Lovric

This novel centers on the erotic poetry the Roman poet Catullus wrote to a notoriously heartless woman named Clodia in c.63 B.C. Years later, in the 15th century, the poems turn up in Venice, where a German printer named Wendolin von Speyer publishes them--and they set into a motion a sequence of events that involve secret loves, witchcraft, ...

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Gaius Valerius Catul Poet Work more books like this

by Jacob Rabinowitz (Translator), Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus

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The Complete Poetry of Catullus

The Complete Poetry of Catullus more books like this

by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus, David D Mulroy (Translator)

In these translated poems, David Mulroy aims to bring to life the witty, poignant and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in Julius Caesar's Rome, reacting to real people and events in a city full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. These translations are accompanied by ...

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When the Lamp is Shattered: Desire and Narrative in Catullus

When the Lamp is Shattered: Desire and Narrative in Catullus more books like this

by Micaela Janan, Michaela Janan

The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West. Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text ...

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Poems

Poems more books like this

by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus

One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli - married, seductive and corrupt - charting ...

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Catullus. Tibullus. Pervigilium Veneris

Catullus. Tibullus. Pervigilium Veneris more books like this

by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus, Tibullus, F W Cornish (Translator)

Catullus, of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men form Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. Tibullus, of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a ...

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A Catullus Workbook more books like this

by Helena Dettmer

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A Commentary on Catullus

A Commentary on Catullus more books like this

by Robinson Ellis

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...

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Counting the Stars

Counting the Stars more books like this

by Helen Dunmore

In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret. Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionate poems. He is jealous of her husband, of her ...

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Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood

Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood more books like this

by David Wray

This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the ...

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The poems of Catullus. A bilingual edition. more books like this

by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Peter Whigham

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The Catullan Revolution

The Catullan Revolution more books like this

by Kenneth Quinn

Examining the revolution wrought by Catullus in Latin poetry, this volume encapsulates the way in which principles of modern literary criticism could be applied to classical poetry, without ditching the sound philological scholarship of the classical tradition. In its day this book led the way in showing the philogically trained student how to be ...

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Catullus & the Poetics of Roma more books like this

by David Wray

This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the ...

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The Poems of Catullus: A Teaching Text more books like this

by Phyllis Young Forsyth

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Catullus and the Traditions of Ancient Poetry more books like this

by Arthur L. Wheeler

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Catullus: The Complete Poems for American Readers more books like this

by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Catullus more books like this

by Julia Haig Gaisser

Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles. ...

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Companion to Catullus more books like this

by Marilyn B Skinner (Editor)

In this "Companion", international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. This book explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman 'lyric poets'. It provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems. ...

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Catullus: The Complete Poems for Modern Readers more books like this

by Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Poems of Catullus more books like this

by James Michie (Translator), R Rowland, Professor Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Ritual and Desire: Catullus 61 and 62 and Other Ancient Documents on Wedding and Marriage more books like this

by OLE Thomsen

Catullus' two wedding poems contain important statements regarding the poet's personality, Roman sexual morality, attitudes to love and marriage, and the practice and psychology of ancient religion. This work subjects the two poems to detailed analysis, and yields new insights into the ritual drama enacted, the mythical and erotic dimensions, and ...

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Roman lyric poetry by Catullus and Horace more books like this

by Alexander Gordon McKay

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Catullus' Carmen 61 more books like this

by Paolo Fedeli

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Catulls Epigramme Im Kontext Hellenistischer Dichtung

by Cornelius Hartz

The Roman poet Catullus is regarded as the founder of private love poetry. As a member of the group of poets known as a oeNeotericsa he had a particular influence on the literary life of Rome in the first century BC. To date, however, insufficient attention has been paid to his shortest poems, the epigrams, and neither their artistry hasbeen ...

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