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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781009235761
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009235761
Subjects:
Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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Book description

Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus' life and work. 'Lesbia' was not a woman in her thirties, as has been believed for 150 years, but a girl only recently married; Catullus' poems were written for performance, private or public, and it was only in 54 BC, at what he saw as the turning-point of his life, that he collected their texts into a sequence of probably seven volumes. His subsequent literary career, equally successful but much less well attested, was as a 'mime'-dramatist. This book is intended for everyone who is interested in poetry and history, and who does not believe that literary texts exist in a vacuum.

Reviews

‘It is always a pleasure to read Wiseman: the style, the intellect, the ingenuity … And, although here the reader must take care not to become bedazzled, there is always authentic, welcome erudition. All of which is to say that I enjoyed this book.’

W. Jeffrey Tatum Source: Gnomon

‘In light of the wealth of stimuli and suggestions that the volume offers, of the interest of the issues addressed and the breadth of sources and data used, certainly this work will continue to fuel the dialogue between historical criticism and literary criticism on Catullus.’

Filomena Bernardo Source: Exemplaria Classica

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