The Cambridge Companion to Catullus Du Quesnay Woodman Paperback 9781316644713

Name: The Cambridge Companion to Catullus Du Quesnay Woodman Paperback 9781316644713
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Companion to Catullus\n\nComprehensive coverage, accessible to students and non-specialists, of one of the most popular poets of classical antiquity.\n\nIan Du Quesnay (Edited by), Tony Woodman (Edited by)\n\n9781316644713, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 29 April 2021\n\n410 pages\n22.8 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\n\n'\u2026 advanced students, teachers, and researchers looking to orient themselves in the scholarship on Catullus will benefit \u2026 Recommended.' M. L. Goldman, Choice Magazine\n\nCatullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual context of first-century BC Rome. One of the so-called 'ne]