The Poems Of Catullus
A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
$37.63
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
From an award-winning translator, a new dual-language translation of poems by Catullus, the Roman poet and punk, the lover and hater, the hedonist and wretch, famous for his contradictions, on friendship, sympathy, love and sex, and notably, diatribes against enemies.
I hate and love. How do I do this, you might ask. I don’t know but I feel it and am tortured.
A Penguin Classic
Award-winning translator Stephanie McCarter presents a dual-language translation of the surv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143136378 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143136372 |
| Author: | Gaius Valerius Catullus, Stephanie McCarter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 129mm x 198mm |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus lived and wrote during the first-century BCE, a time of political crisis that would mark the end of the Roman Republic. Little is known of his life beyond the enticing biographical scraps found in his poetry. A native of Verona, he offers us an enticing glimpse into the political and cultural life of his time, writing with astonishing frankness about his most famous contemporaries while devoting himself to leisure, poetry, friendship, and love.
Stephanie McCarter (translator and introducer)
Stephanie McCarter is a professor of Classics at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. A specialist in the translation of Latin poetry, she won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for her edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.
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