Catullus

Comprehensive coverage, accessible to students and non-specialists, of one of the most popular poets of classical antiquity.

About the author

Ian Du Quesnay was formerly Bursar of Newnham College and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on Latin poetry and coedited, with Tony Woodman, Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (Cambridge, 2012).Tony Woodman is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Emeritus Professor of Latin at Durham University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He has published twenty-five books and numerous articles on many aspects of Latin poetry and prose, especially Horace and Latin historiography, and coedited, with Ian Du Quesnay, Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (Cambridge, 2012). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (2010).

Summary

Aimed not only at a broad readership of classical scholars and students but also at all those interested in one of the most loved and influential poets of ancient Rome. Discusses Catullus' poetry, his late-republican background, and his scholarly and literary reception.

Product details

• Authors: Ian (University of Cambridge) Woodman Du Quesnay
• Assisted by: Woodman Tony (Editor), Ian (University of Cambridge) Du Quesnay (Editor), Ian Du Quesnay (Editor), Tony (University of Virginia) Woodman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.2021
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
• EAN: 9781316644713
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64471-3
• Dimensions (packing): 15.3 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: European History; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval