The Complete Poetry of Catullus (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299177742 ISBN 13: 9780299177744

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

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    Catullus&; life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar&;s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul&;s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus.
    David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroy&;s lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar.

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David Mulroy, associate professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin&;Milwaukee, has published two other translated collections, Early Greek Lyric Poetry and Horace&;s Odes and Epodes. He has performed his translations of Catullus&; poems at poetry slams in Milwaukee bars to enthusiastic response.

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0299177742
• ISBN 13: 9780299177744
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
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