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Zusatztext "This is the finest English Catullus we now have or probably will have for the indefinite future. All future translators of Classical poetry should do what Green has done in detail . . . : lay out the exact forms of English rhythm and their variations that will represent quantitative meters. Translators who fail that minimum requirement should not see print." Informationen zum Autor Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. He is the author of many books! including Alexander of Macedon! 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (California! 1991) and Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (California! 1990). His translations include Ovid's The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters (California! 2005)! Juvenal's The Sixteen Satires (third edition! 1998)! and Apollonios Rhodios's The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (California! 1997). Klappentext "Peter Green is an outstanding translator. The reader’s excited anticipation of pleasure and instruction on receiving a new translation of a Latin poet by Green is not disappointed. This is a labor of love which makes Catullus accessible to the Latinless reader and more familiar to those who can read Latin."—Susan Treggiari, Stanford University "For almost half a century Peter Green has been one of the finest of all modern translators of classical verse. His Catullus is well up to his usual form—recapturing for a contemporary audience the wit, malice, erudition and erotic charm of the Latin original."—Mary Beard, author of The Parthenon Zusammenfassung Catullus' poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. This work is a bilingual translation of Catullus' poems. It provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, and a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which he lived. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Life and Background Lesbia/Clodia The Literary Context The Text: Arrangement and Transmission Reception and Reinterpretation Translation and Its Problems The Catullan Meters The Poems (1-116) Explanatory Notes Glossary Bibliography Index ...
