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
Prolegomenon to the Catullus Problem
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
While this prolegomenon will introduce a traditional problem in Catullan scholarship, it will not be a comprehensive survey of the scholarship or a balanced account of all of its major trends and approaches. Instead, it sets out what has proved to be the most fruitful way of searching for authorial design in the Catullan poems and explains the interpretive progress that has been achieved by application of this approach. Other approaches are certainly possible, and this one may, if taken alone, ultimately prove inadequate to the problem it confronts. But it has produced nearly all of the progress made to date in the area of Catullan arrangement.
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- Catullus Through his BooksDramas of Composition, pp. 26 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020