1 Ferguson 1988.

2 The doyen of the prosopographical approach is undoubtedly Wiseman (see most recently Wiseman 2023: 3–12 on the identity of Lesbia). Other studies adopting a similar methodology include Skinner 1983, 2011; J. D. Morgan 1990, 2008; and Feeney 2010. For a nuanced account of the problems involved in prosopographical approaches, see Damon 2021: 7–9.

3 Volumes 1–3 appeared in French in 1976–84, in English translation in 1978–86.

4 Richlin 1992; Skinner 1989, 1992, 1997 (inter alia); Wray 2001. Other gender-inflected studies include Janan 1994; E. Greene 1998: 1–36; Miller 2004: 31–59.

5 Nappa 2001 is a particularly thoroughgoing exemplar of this approach.

6 From a different perspective, scholars of a more historicist bent have argued that the concept of persona is anachronistic when applied to ancient poetry: so Mayer 2003 and cf. D. Clay 1998.

7 Representative is Fitzgerald 1995: 10–11 on urbanitas as social performance.

8 Catullus’ poetics of literary exchange are most fully analysed by Citroni 1995 and Stroup 2010; for homosocial rivalry as an important contributing factor in the poet’s self-representation, see Wray 2001: esp. 113–60.

9 See esp. Krostenko 2001.

10 Or arte allusiva: see Pasquali 1942.

11 See esp. Wray 2001: 161–216 on Archilochus and Callimachus; E. Greene 2007, Thorsen 2019, and Thévenaz 2019 on Sappho. For Catullus and New Comedy, see esp. Uden 2006; Polt 2021.

12 In addition to Young 2015, see e.g. Konstan 2000; E. Greene 2006; Dufallo 2013: 39–73.

13 Richlin 1992 was again an important milestone here. More recent studies have tended to address individual poems (or cycles), though see Lorenz 2012 for a concise analysis of Catullus’ use of obscenity in the collection as a whole.

14 For recent bibliography on textual issues, see the Appendix, below.

15 Kiss 2021: 314.

16 Schafer 2020; Du Quesnay 2021; Wiseman 2023: 13–47.

17 Gaisser 1993; Stead 2016.