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Feb 7, 2020 · Catullus conveys his grief through sound effects over semantics, using murmurance and very spondaic lines to slow the poem down and focus on the “mute ashes”. Catullus, like Procne, expresses...
Apr 9, 2021 · The desire to situate Catullus and his poems at the tumultuous midpoint of first-century bc Rome is both hard to resist and hard to satisfy. The basic problem can be glimpsed through a confrontation of two scholarly positions represented in a collection of influential papers on Catullus.
May 21, 2022 · Catullus 63 is a remarkable poem. It sees Attis, a Greek youth, journey to Phrygia, the home of the goddess Cybele. Once there, he promptly castrates himself, then, possessed by religious ecstasy, he performs a frenzied dance, before falling asleep, exhausted.
- The Poem: Catullus Two (2 and 2B), with Working Translation by GN
- Introduction: What Does Catullus Two Have to Do with Sappho?
- A Small Comment on An Iconic Effect
- A Small Comment on An Expression of Delight in What Is Beautiful
1. passer, deliciae meae puellae, 2. quicum ludere, quem in sinu tenere, 3. cui primum digitum dare appetenti, 4. et acris solet incitare morsus 5. cum desiderio meo nitenti, 6. carum nescio quid lubet iocari, 7. et solacium sui doloris, 8. credo, ut tum gravis acquiescat ardor, 9. tecum ludere sicut ipsa possem, 10. et tristis animi leuare curas 1...
§0.1. Invoked at line 1 of Catullus 2—and then re-invoked at line 9 by way of ring composition—is a passer or ‘sparrow’, beloved pet of a puella ‘girl’. And this invocation of the sparrow by Catullus is an evocation of Sappho. As we see in Song 1 of Sappho, line 10, the chariot of Aphrodite is harnessed to strouthoi ‘sparrows’. We see these randy l...
§1.1. If I am right that Catullus Two is based on a song of Sappho, now lost, then we should expect to see in this poem of Catullus other features that are typical of Sappho’s poetics. One such feature, as I will argue here, is what I call iconicity, that is, the creation of an iconic effect. The terminology stems ultimately from the linguist Roman...
§2.1. Many who have written about Catullus 2 think that the last three lines, 11–13, do not belong to the poem. That is the idea behind the nomenclature “Catullus 2b” for these three lines. But I agree with those like Stephen Harrison (2003) who argue for the unity of all 13 lines—though my interpretation is different. §2.2. The linchpin, I think, ...
This volume provides literary history and criticism on Catullus, along with advice on how to read his works. His influences and writing style are also discussed. Contains an introduction and 27...
Feb 28, 2013 · 12 Rossberg's nulli at 8.14 gives us another instance of dative of the agent with a finite verb in Catullus (note 7.9 for confusion between ei, an alternative spelling for long i, and a in the tradition).
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Full details of the manuscript tradition of Catullus and of the sources of particular conjectures may be found in D.F.S. Thomson's edi- tion (1997); since then see SJ.
