Book contents
- Catullus Through his Books
- Catullus Through his Books
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prolegomenon to the Catullus Problem
- Chapter 1 Ax (poems 52–60)
- Chapter 2 A (poems 1–51)
- Chapter 3 B (poems 61–64) and C1 (65–68b)
- Chapter 4 C2 (poems 69–116)
- Conclusion Two Interpretive Applications
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - B (poems 61–64) and C1 (65–68b)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Catullus Through his Books
- Catullus Through his Books
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prolegomenon to the Catullus Problem
- Chapter 1 Ax (poems 52–60)
- Chapter 2 A (poems 1–51)
- Chapter 3 B (poems 61–64) and C1 (65–68b)
- Chapter 4 C2 (poems 69–116)
- Conclusion Two Interpretive Applications
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I begin with a concession: the case that B is an authorial book confronts an objection with which A and C are not faced. An authorial B would be formally unique: there is no extant parallel for a Latin poetry book consisting of “a handful of longer poems in various meters.” Moreover, there is a plausible alternative model of their physical realization and circulation: namely, each on its own. If, as I argued in the Prolegomenon, the single-roll Gesamtausgabe hypothesis is rendered implausible by the vast difference between such a poetry book and all extant ones, why does the same not obtain of 61–64?
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- Catullus Through his BooksDramas of Composition, pp. 134 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020