Love by the Numbers: Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Catullus. This item is unavailable.Love by the Numbers: Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Catullus

***Signed and inscribed by Author*** Like new case wrapped hardcover. 8vo. (6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature and inscription to the late Professor Peter Green on the front endpaper. Includes list of illustrations, select bibliography, appendices [2], endnotes, bibliography, index of passages and a general index. 366 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus survived antiquity by the slimmest of threads. This study concerns the controversial issue of whether the order of the collection was contrived by the poet himself. Love by the Numbers offers new and compelling evidence that Catullus shaped the work into an exquisitely interrelated whole. The aesthetic patterning is highly significant because it offers fresh solutions to longstanding problems of text and interpretation. The development of deeply learned philological analysis in the service of elucidating widely applicable human concerns makes this book a relative rarity in the field of Classics, a work of hard scholarship that informs a human sensibility toward matters of the heart.…