Although Catullus is one of the best known of the Roman poets it is his shorter poems that are more familiar. This is the first edition of the long poems of Catullus in a single volume which with the companion volume completes all Catullus surviving work. This edition aims to describe and discuss recent scholarship on the poems, seeing them in their context and intertext as fully as possible.
John Godwin is Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School and the editor in this series of Catullus: The Shorter Poems and of Lucretius 4 and Lucretius 6.
240pp. (1996) cl 670 0 £35 / $59.99, pb 671 9 £16.50 / $28 (pb reprint under consideration)
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CONTENTS Preface INTRODUCTION
PARALLEL LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Appendix (Callimachus Fragment 110) Glossary of Literary Terms Bibliography |
SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
"From a widely useful introduction ... The text is printed with a clarity that demands attention. The translation will enable the unlatined to enter the poet's thoughts and the unconfident latinist to find a way through the text without tears, but those looking for a peotic rendering should continue the search. The Commentary is excellent. Preceding the detailed notes on each of the poems there is a full discussion of recent scholarship. The notes themselves are not so detailed as to weary the flesh with much reading or daunt the spirit with many-forked ways of schlarship. On the contrary, they delight the heart and inform the mind." London Association of Classical Teachers
"This is a worthy addition to the Aris & Phillips series. Godwin's translation of the poems is both clear and coherent, and the level at which the commentary is pitched is finely judged, being neither simplistic nor overindulgent. A reader new to the more ambitious poetic compositions in the Catullian corpus will find all the basic background covered in Godwin's footnote." Classical Review
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