Catullan Questions Revisited
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- Paperback
188 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2024
Summary
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 p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009235716 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009235710 |
| Author: | T.P. Wiseman |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 188 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 313g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
‘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, 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, Exemplaria Classica
About The Author
T.P. Wiseman
T. P. Wiseman is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. He has been a leading scholar of the political and social history of republican Rome for more than half a century and has a particular interest in social historical approaches to Catullus. His books include Catullan Questions (1969) and Catullus and His World (Cambridge, 1985).
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