Catullus

Julia Haig Gaisser

Wiley, May 6, 2009 - Literary Criticism - 256 pages

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.

• Places Catullus in a social, historical, and literary context
• Examines Catallus's style and subjects, and provides a literary introduction to his major themes of love, social life, and politics
• Discusses the reception of the poems by translators and interpreters

About the author

Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, and a past president of the American Philological Association. She is the author of Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999), and The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), and the editor of Catullus in English (2001), and Catullus (2007).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Catullus; Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
• Author: Julia Haig Gaisser
• Publisher: Wiley, 2009
• ISBN: 1444310461, 9781444310467
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: History / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical