Catullus: The Complete Poems (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Catullus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192835874 ISBN 13: 9780192835871

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful appeal on all kinds of readers. The 116 poems collected in this new translation include the famous Lesbia poems and display the full range of Catullus's mastery of lyric meter, mythological themes, and epigrammatic invective and wit.

About this title

About the Author:

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC ca. 54 BC) was one of the most influential Roman poets of the 1st century BC. His work is still widely studied, and his perennial influence continues to be seen in poetry and other forms of art. Guy Lee is at St John's College, Cambridge.

Review:

`The best current translator of Latin poetry, Guy Lee, has now turned his attention to "The Poems of Catullus" ... this is yet another distinguished version from Lee's pen which deserves to become the standard version both for those with Latin and those studying Catullus in translation, and
its author deserves hearty congratulations.'
Greece and Rome

'the work of a consummate Latinist ... with a desire to communicate something of the elegance and verbal flair of his original, a matter close to L.'s heart as the crisp introduction makes plain ... a very persuasive book'
Roland Mayer, King's College, London, The Classical Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, 1993

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192835874
• ISBN 13: 9780192835871
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224