A Companion to Catullus [Paperback]

• Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’
• Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems
• Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him
• Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence

List of Illustrations x

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

Notes on Contributors xx

1 Introduction 1
Marilyn B. Skinner

Part I The Text and the Collection 11

2 History and Transmission of the Text 13
J. L. Butrica

3 Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past and Present 35
Marilyn B. Skinner

Part II Contexts of Production 55

4 The Valerii Catulli of Verona 57
T. P. Wiseman

5 The Contemporary Political Context 72
David Konstan

6 The Intellectual Climate 92
Andrew Feldherr

7 Gender and Masculinity 111
Elizabeth Manwell

Part III Influences 129

8 Catullus and Sappho 131
Ellen Greene

9 Catullus and Callimachus 151
Peter E. Knox

Part IV Stylistics 173