Catullus: Reprint Edition

Catullus

ISBN 10: 0674103505 / ISBN 13: 9780674103504

Published by Harvard University Press, 1965

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catullus: Reprint Edition
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674103505
• ISBN 13: 9780674103504
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

The beginnings of lyric poetry among the Romans reach back to the prehistoric period of the city, and were as rude and shapeless as was the life of her people. Amid the rough farmer-populace of the turf-walled village by the Tiber the Arval Brethren and the Salii chanted their rude litanies to the rustic deities, -for even then religion was a prime cause in moving men toward poetry.

From the Back Cover

Catullus, of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men form Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. Tibullus, of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honor of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature.