| The Poems of Catullus Contributor(s): Ellis, Robinson (Translator), Catullus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1456303708 ISBN-13: 9781456303709 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $5.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Poetry |
| Dewey: 874.01 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.24 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny, and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty. Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia, often identified as Clodia Metelli, a femme fatale ten years his senior and the smart, adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat. Cicero later claimed she poisoned her husband. (Text refers to a previous edition). |