.... At the heart of the poem, Propertius urges Cynthia to pray that her beauty—and thus her influence on Propertius—remains eternal: this chapter also explores how through anagrams, acrostics, and allusive play with Callimachus, Catullus, and Tibullus, Propertius evokes themes of marriage, childlessness...

...Part IV: Lyric and Drama explores the opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal in conjunction with Catullus 64. The opera’s hitherto underestimated debt to Catullus sheds new light on its many generic and interpretative contradictions and helps...

... to the opera’s large-scale allegorical purpose. The lyric reading is developed by exploring the integration of subjectivity in both works, as well as the now-familiar shifting style (das Gleitende) that runs throughout. The structural similarities between Catullus 64 and Hofmannsthal’s...

... the process of reception. It also unravels the potential for lyric aspects to be embedded in narrative or dramatic forms, and questions the implications of this for the theorization of lyric and for the reading of Catullus. It establishes a framework for working with these ideas and sets the conclusions...

...Chapter 2 focuses on Catullus’s poem 64, his “epyllion” (“miniature epic”) on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, with its great central ecphrasis of a tapestry depicting the myth of Ariadne and Theseus. Adopting an immensely allusive technique typical of the Hellenistic Greek poetry of Alexandria...

... of which call on the reader as witness. At the other pole we have the facetious or urbane conspiracy with the reader being expected not to take anything the poet says too seriously. The discussion then turns to the work of Catullus, which exhibits these two expressive poles or modes of utterance...

... emerges as the central theme, sought by both narrator and characters, in contrasting circumstances. The poem presents a cosmos: gods, humans, men, women, old, young are compared in regard to knowledge (including experience). An appendix shows the strategy and shape of Catullus 65-8b...

... of the character of Homeric allusiveness in Latin poetry before Ovid, especially in Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius and the elegists . The chapter concludes with the suggestion that Ovid’s familiarity with the Homeric poems is based not only on the poems themselves but also on the tradition of scholarly...

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...This chapter examines five commentaries on the Latin erotic poets Propertius and Catullus from around 1460 to 1521. The commentaries are of several types and demonstrate the diversity of methods, interests, and audiences that characterizes the development of the Renaissance commentary as a genre...

...This chapter explores the translation strategies required to translate Roman poet Catullus into English, exploring, in particular, the difficulties of translating long-dead jokes and humour from ancient civilizations. It asks how women translators might approach Catullus’s often violent sexual...

..., as well as Catullus and Ovid, to poetry collections inspired by classical literature, this book's author discusses her relationship with her source texts and uncovers the various strategies and approaches she has employed in their transformations into English. In particular, the book reveals how the need...

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...This chapter argues that Catullus’s poem 64 (a miniature epic or epyllion), though original by modern standards, is shot through with forms of translation that were common at Rome, in particular what we might call generic translation. Frequently the narrative flow of this long poem is paused...

...The first part of the third chapter performs a reading of Catullus 4 (the phaselus poem) that highlights the vital role that Greek-speaking immigrants from Bithynia and elsewhere in Asia Minor, many of them slaves or freedmen like Parthenius of Nicaea, played in mediating Roman...

...The fourth chapter argues that Catullus harnesses the intimacy of first person poetic translation as a powerfully transformative tool that facilitates his elaboration of novel voicings and postures. This argument is made through a reading of two poems (Catullus 50 and Catullus 65) that serve...

...Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome questions the truism that poetry and translation are inherently at odds, arguing for translation as a defining condition of ancient Roman lyricism. The study focuses on the late Republican poet Catullus, arguing...

... or courtly love is refuted. Apollonius, Propertius, Catullus, Terence and Ovid are called as witnesses, ending with a consideration of Greek novels. Romantic love is shown to have existed in the Classical world, just not to have been the prevailing social ethos it became in nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

...This chapter examines the school of writing that Catullus belongs to, which can be identified as his place in Roman literature. It argues that Catullus' poetry is rooted in the Greek concept of poetic madness, a mode of writing that can be derived from sudden bursts of poetic inspiration or passion...

...This chapter explores Catullus' love poems, focusing on the wider context of sexual manners found in the Roman society he lived in. In most of Catullus' love poems, the name Lesbia appeared prominently for numerous occasions. According to the writer Apuleius, Lesbia can be a pseudonym for a certain...