CONTENTS
Preface
Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
Catullus' Life and Times
Poetry as Performance
Neoteric Poetry
Interpretive Strategies
The Metres
The Transmission of the Text
Sigla
PARALLEL LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
This volume completes the edition of all the surviving poetry of Catullus, aiming to bring the literary history of this poet to readers who may not have read his work before. It 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 editor of Catullus 6168, Lucretius De Rerum Natura IV and De Rerum Natura VI in this series.
240pp.; (1999) cl 714 6 £35 / $59.99, pb 715 4 £16.50
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SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
"This is an extremely useful edition of Catullus which would be helpful to teachers and sixth form students". "The commentary on the text is very helpful both to student and teacher and includes a summary of the main points contained within each poem as well as more detailed comments on style. Godwin discusses recent scholarship on the poems "well". LACT
G's Catullus is an admirable example of the series at its best: the commentary is clear, helpful and undogmatic ... introduction helpfully sets Catullus' poetry in its historical and literary context." Greece and Rome
"Catullus would have been delighted with Godwin's edition of his shorter poems ... It is attractively produced ... This is a work of tremendous scholarship ... His introduction is particularly good ... for all teachers of classics and for university students this is an edition much to be recommended, as it adds many new ideas to the body of scholarship on Catullus." The Classical Review
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