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INTRODUCING CATULLUS

INTRODUCING CATULLUS. THE carmina. POEMS FORM AMOUNT 1–60 “ polymetrics ” (lyric, esp. hendecasyllable) 848 lines erotic, social, polemical 61–68 “longer/Alexandrian poems” (esp. hexameter, elegiac couplets) 1121 lines wedding hymns, Attis poem, epyllion , elegies

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INTRODUCING CATULLUS

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  1. INTRODUCING CATULLUS

  2. THE carmina • POEMS FORM AMOUNT • 1–60 “polymetrics” (lyric, esp. hendecasyllable) 848 lines • erotic, social, polemical • 61–68 “longer/Alexandrian poems” (esp. hexameter, elegiac couplets) 1121 lines • wedding hymns, Attis poem, epyllion, elegies • 69–116 epigrams (elegiac couplets) 320 lines • erotic, lament, polemical

  3. POEM 1: the dedicated libellus& the programmatic poem

  4. ANCIENT comments ON the language of POEM 1 Servius on pumice Pliny the Elder on meas

  5. who was corneliusnepos?

  6. the LITERARY world of the LATE REPUBLIC • http://prezi.com/lg2ryxvudqzw/timeline-of-latin-authors-and-roman-history/

  7. poetry and politics

  8. Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Catullus at Lesbia’s (1865)

  9. lesbianamed • Hic illudetiamreprehendianimaduertisti, quod, cum aliisnominibuspueriuocentur, ego eosCharinum et Critianappellitarim. • Eademigitur opera accusentC. Catul<l>um, quod Lesbiam pro Clodianominarit, et Ticidamsimiliter, quod quae MetellaeratPerillamscripserit, et Propertium, qui Cunthiamdicat, Hostiamdissimulet, et Tibullum, quod ei sit Plania in animo, Deliain uersu. (Apuleius, Apologia 10.3–4)

  10. cicero on the neōteroi/novipoetae [II] Scr. Brundisi v K. Dec. a. 704 (50 BCE). CICERO ATTICO SAL. Brundisiumvenimus vii Kalend. Decembr. usitua felicitate navigandi; ita belle nobis flavitabEpirolenissimusOnchesmites. huncσπονδειάζονταsi cui voles τῶννεωτέρωνpro tuovendito. Cf. Catullus 64, line 28: tēne Thetis tenuitpulcerrimaNērēīnē

  11. a neoteric tradition • Pliny the Younger • Epistulae 1.16.5 (on his friend PompeiusSaturninus): • Praetereafacitversus, qualesCatullusmeusautCalvus, re veraquales Catullus autCalvus. • Quantum illisleporisdulcedinisamaritudinisamoris! • Inseritsane, seddata opera,mollibuslevibusqueduriusculosquosdam; et hoc quasi CatullusautCalvus.

  12. poem 2: the sparrow

  13. the catullan sparrow in martial’s epigrams

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