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Of all the Roman poets Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This accessible book, which assumes no prior knowledge of the poet or of Roman poetry in general, explores Catullus in all his many guises. In six concise chapters Godwin deals with the cultural background to Catullus' poetic production, its literary context, the role of love, Alexandrian learning ...

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Reading Catullus 2008, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

ISBN-13: 9781904675648

Trade paperback

Reading Catullus 2008, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

ISBN-13: 9781904675631

Hardcover