Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful appeal on all kinds of readers. The 116 poems collected in this new translation include thefamous Lesbia poems and display the full range of Catullus's mastery of lyric meter, mythological themes, and epigrammatic invective and wit.

Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny, and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty. Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia, often identified as Clodia Metelli, a femme fatale ten years his senior and the smart, adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat. Cicero later claimed she poisoned her husband. This new bilingual translation of Catullus's surviving poems by Peter Green is fresh, bawdy, and utterly engaging. Unlike its predecessors, it adheres to the principle that the rhythm of a poem, whether familiar or not, is among the most crucial elements for its full appreciation. Green provides an essay on the poet's life and literary background, a historical sketch of the politically fraught late Roman Republic in which Catullus lived, copious notes on the poems, a wide-ranging bibliography for further reading, and a full glossary.

This new volume, Catullus: Expanded Edition, merges the Latin poems from both earlier versions into one volume. Containing all the poems on the 2005-06 AP Catullus Examination syllabus.Excellent and convenient resources, the Catullus Expanded Edition Teacher's Guide is designed to help teachers prepare students for the Catullus component of the AP Latin Literature Exam. It includes the Latin text of the AP Catullus selections, a working translation, a bibliography, and tests on reproducible pages.

Catullus life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus. David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroy s lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar."

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BCE), one of the finest lyrical poets of classical times, was also among the bawdiest. He was capable of producing poems of such forthright and ribald sensuality that until recently they were all too often relegated to collections of erotica to protect the innocent minds of impressionable students. This collection of Catullus' poems incorporates the original Latin text and a facing English translation by James Michie, which is contemporary and lively, matching the spirit of the original, and also reveals the poets as he really was: a worldly, lusty man writing for his turbulent age.

This edition of Catullus was first published in 1970 in the long lived 'red Macmillan' series, and it has remained the standard edition of the complete (unbowdlerised) poems for use by upper school and university students. It caters for a wide range of needs, some of the annotations being on deeper points of poetic content. Quinn sees it as his main purpose to interpret each pome as a strucxtural and poetic whole for the attentive and responsive reader. To the commentary on each poem is added a bibliography of interpretive articles.

"A translation that successfully re-creates in English the wit, the lyric, exaltation, the playful banter, the despair, the scurrilous invective, and the dramatic flair of the original, all of it moving easily in artfully contrived and skillfully controlled English equivalents of Catullus' many and varied meters."--BernardKnox, New York Review of Books.

Catullus, best remembered for his tempestuous relationship with the notorious Clodia Metelli, was one of the most influential, original and enigmatic of all the Roman poets. This text presents a collection of his work.

Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects Catullus' mastery of poetic forms as diverse as the lyric, the inventive epigram, and the romantic legend,and shows his passionate, and sometimes dedicated to his lover Lesbia. This edition also includes a introduction to the poet's life and work, and full explanatory notes.

One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli - married, seductive and corrupt - charting the course from rapturous delight in a new affair to the torment of love gone sour; poems to his young friend Iuventius; and longer verse, such as the extraordinary tale of Attis, a Greek youth who castrates himself in a fit of religious ecstasy. Ranging from the tender, moving and passionate to the vicious and even obscene, these are poems of astonishingly modern force and content.

Written in the twilight of the Roman Republic, the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus offers a delicious insight into the passions and gossip of high Roman society. From the poet and his friends to cultural and political titans, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey, his cutting, modern verse spares no-one. In this new translation by Daisy Dunn, author of Catullus' Bedspread, his obscene honesty, arrogant wit and surprising tenderness capture Roman society at their best. Most famous for his obsessive love lyrics for the married Lesbia, Catullus' words are an immortal expression of youth, rebellion and agonised love.

In this edition of Catullus's poetry, Lee provides a new, reliable text for the scholar and a facing page translation--as faithful to the Latin as possible--for students and the general reader. In addition to a wide selection of Catallus's lyrics, epigrams, themes from romantic legends, and a set of poems dedicated to his lover Lesbia, the book includes a full introduction, explanatory notes to the text and translation, a chronology, and brief bibliography.

As a young man, Cattullus moved to Rome and conducted a passionate affair with a woman whom he addresses as Lesbia. The Lesbia poems depict the progress of this relationship from first, careless rapture to final rupture.

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This work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction. For the introduction and for each of the poems there is an extensive and current bibliography. In the introduction, apart from sections on the life of Catullus, on the arrangement of the poems, and on their literary background, there is a lengthy discussion of the history of the text, as well as a review of the progress of Catullan studies from the editio princeps to the present day. There are about seventy changes from the previous edition in the text of the poems. The critical apparatus has also been extensively revised. In addition, the Table of Manuscripts, which has come to be regarded as standard, has been updated without alteration to the numbering sequence. Though this is not primarily intended as a 'school edition,' the commentary includes, in addition to critical judgments, translations and interpretations of words and phrases that may help to illuminate readings in the text. Catullus offers readers a new text of the poems, with a commentary, a codicology of the manuscript tradition, and a thorough review of Catullus scholarship.

Rom Harré has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. His countless books and articles have inspired generations of scholars in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and social theory. The diversity of his work makes that some see him as a leading figure in the critical realist school of philosophy of science, other as a key player in developing a social constructionist approach to psychology. The present volume brings together a careful selection of his key writings and presents them in a framework that stresses the evolution of his thinking as well as the place of his thinking in ongoing debates in different disciplines. The overall theme is the study of people and their ways of life. This is the first book that gives readers a systematic introduction in the conceptual universe of this towering figure.

Pooh and his friends are back to delight Pooh admirers every day of the year. With bigger and brighter images and a sturdy die-cut of Pooh and friends at the top, this charming wall calendar features an Ernest H. Shepard illustration for each month, accompanied by a little smackerel of prose or verse taken from the original A. A. Milne classics. In addition, a sheet of more than fifty full-color stickers is included to help mark any Important Occasion. Share a part of every day with the Best Bear in All the World&150Winnie-the-Pooh.

This edition presents the Rapport on French poetry from 1867 to 1900 that Mendes was commissioned to write. It also contains the Dictionnaire, in which he gathered press cuttings about each author. Despite the bias of Mendes' survey, given his Parnassian commitment, his work contributed nevertheless to the writing of the history of poetry.

In these splendid verse translations, Charles Martin makes newly accessible the work of one of ancient Rome's most widely read and exciting poets. It is the life and language of Roman streets that gives this poetry its force and lasting appeal. Catullus is a master of passing on the latest, most vicious gossip. No blow is too low to aim at an enemy, not even the sort scratched on walls about people like "Rufa, the Bolognese wife of Menenius," whose scandalous acts in a "cheap graveyard" live on long after her. But the poet's range of experience is not limited to Roman streets. He knows of life inside Roman villas as well (including Julius Caesar's, where he was a dinner guest). And behind the boastful exaggerations there is often a serious purpose. Catullus sees himself as a morality, reminding others of what constitutes proper behavior. He is also a student of literature, and his love poems can pair moral pietites with pungent obscenities or set ancient Greek literary clichés alongside jarring, "modern" metaphors from the world of Roman high finance. Charles Martin's translation skillfully conveys the tones and rhythms of the Latin verse while never straying far from its original meaning.

In these translated poems, David Mulroy aims to bring to life the witty, poignant and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in Julius Caesar's Rome, reacting to real people and events in a city full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. These translations are accompanied by: an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus; a history of his times; a discussion of the translations; and definitions and notes.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... At non effugies meos iambos. II Hunc lucum tibi dedico Consecroque Priape, Qua domus tua Lampsacist Quaque lege Priapi. Nam te praecipue in suis Urbibus colit ora Hellespontia ceteris Ostriosior oris. NOTES i The dedication is to Cornelius Nepos, an amiable man but dull historian. It was probably intended as a preface to some only of the poems. 1. dorw, "am I giving?" more vivid than "am I to give?" though the latter is of course possible; cf. the well-known in qua te quaero proseucha? (Juv. iii. 296). 2. pumice. Cf. xxii. 8. 6. iam turn cum. Emphatic. Nepos found time to praise him even when engaged on his own great work. 7. Onme aevum, i.e. the Chronica of Nepos, a history of all time. 8. laboriosis, "full of research." 9. quidquid hoc libelli, qualecunque. Self-depreciatory; "whatever its worth, whatever its kind." 10. patrona virgo, Le. the Muse. The sudden invocation is not unnatural. Bergk's correction, patroni tit ergo, "that for its patron's sake," is ingenious and gives additional point, but it is not necessary. 11. perenne, " through the years "; or perhaps "unaging," an intentional surprise after plus uno. II To Lesbia's sparrow. 3. primum digitum, "finger-tip." 5,6. "When the bright lady of my longing love is minded to try some charming play" (Munro). 8, 9. dolor, "grief"; e.g. at being parted from her lover, ardor, "the passion of love." 9. credo, "ah yes " lit. "I believe it," for Catullus has felt the same grief. Iia A fragment, or possibly complete in itself. Lesbia may have sent him an apple, a common lover's gift (cf. lxv. 19), and this may be his acknowledgment. puellae, Atalanta, who stopped to pick up the go...

One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli - married, seductive and corrupt - charting the course from rapturous delight in a new affair to the torment of love gone sour; poems to his young friend Iuventius; and longer verse, such as the extraordinary tale of Attis, a Greek youth who castrates himself in a fit of religious ecstasy. Ranging from the tender, moving and passionate to the vicious and even obscene, these are poems of astonishingly modern force and content. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC OCo ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.OCo Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."

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Poetry. Translated from the Latin by Ryan Gallagher: a bluesy, contemporary, fun and salacious version of this ancient lyric poet--it is blues from ancient Rome. Latin and essays included. "Gaius Valerius Catullus is distinguished from all the other writers of antiquity by his vulnerability. He is the most personal of Latin poets, and more personal than any Greek poet including Sappho....if his love poems could only be duplicated in English they would be popular at every level of society and might be sung in night clubs or by rock groups"--Kenneth Rexroth. "I pothered but/ you'll have bothered/ Catullus played Bach"--Louis Zukofsky.

English summary: Poetry seeks though musical harmony to recreate the time before the gods left humans and denied them their presence. Catullus was the grand priest of this melancholic and exalting amnesia. The unity of Catullus's work lies in his opposing the monstrosities of reality with the luminous memories of the ideal. French description: Les dieux ont un jour quitte les assemblees des mortels et ne leur ont plus permis de les rejoindre dans la lumineuse clarte du jour. La poesie, par l'harmonie musicale de ses accords et de ses images, a pour mission de chanter la nostalgie de ces temps benis.Catulle est le grand-pretre de cette anamnese exaltante et melancolique. En meme temps qu'il reconstruit ce monde onirique des benedictions enfuies, il est contraint de le deconstruire par les realites individuelles et collectives. De la, cette egale intensite dans l'enthousiasme des chants d'amour et dans la virulence des attaques satiriques. L'unite de l'oeuvre de Catulle, d'apparence si composite, reside dans cet engagement lyrique de l'individu qui oppose aux laideurs du reel les souvenirs lumineux de l'ideal. L'alliance de la grace et de la trivialite donne a cette poesie une saveur unique dans la litterature antique.

These translations of the poems of Catallus are accompanied by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes.

Born to a prominent family in Verona, Gaius Valerius Catullus was one the most famous poets of the late Roman Republic. Catullus' poetry is characterized by its association to the 1st century B.C. avant-garde movement, Neoterics, which turned away from the classical Homeric style. Instead of focusing on the epic feats of gods and heroes, the Neoterics wrote poems on a much smaller scale, emphasizing a playful and elegant use of language to express complex allusions to and parodies of contemporary subjects. Arguably the most important of the Neoterics, Catullus composed poems regarding such notable figures as Cicero, Caesar, and Pompey. Amongst his most highly-regarded compositions are those regarding his deep love for a women referred to as "Lesbia", commonly identified as the sophisticated patrician Clodia Metelli. Collected together here are the 116 extant poems which have been attributed to Catullus. This edition follows the translations of Robinson Ellis.

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Die Neuauflage enthalt Texte, Erlauterungen, Begleittexte und Arbeitsauftrage in einem Band. Neu aufgenommen sind die Gedichte 13, 31, 34 und 63; gegenuber den fruheren Auflagen weggelassen sind die Gedichte 24, 41, 45, 54, 61, 64 und 84. Die Einleitung schildert Catulls Leben und Werk, seine Zeit und sein Nachwirken und zeigt Moglichkeiten des Umgangs mit Dichtung und ihrer Rezeption auf. Sie gibt Hinweise zu Catulls Position zwischen alteren und neueren Vorstellungen von Liebe und Moral, Lebenszielen, Selbstverwirklichung, Rolle der Frau.Entsprechend vielseitig sind die Begleittexte und Aufgaben gestaltet; sie reichen von zeitgenossischen und griechischen Vergleichstexten bis hin zu modernen Catull-Rezeptionen; es gibt kritische und hymnische Stimmen zum Autor sowie zeitgenossische, historische und moderne Ausserungen zu den in Catulls Gedichten fassbaren Inhalten, Gedanken und Wertungen. Begleittexte, metrische und stilistische Ubersicht helfen bei einer ebenso textadaquaten wie leserbezogenen Interpretation. Die Arbeitsauftrage gelten semantischen, stilistischen, metrischen und motivgeschichtlichen Aufgaben und fordern handlungsorientierte Formen des Nachdichtens, des Neudichtens, des Textvergleichs und der Textverflechtung.

De tous les poetes latins, Catulle est sans doute celui qui a rendu avec le plus de fougue, de sincerite et de violence les eternelles peripeties du desir et de l'amour. Ne aux alentours de 84 avant Jesus-Christ dans une des grandes familles de Verone, Catulle a rapidement sa place dans les meilleurs cercles litteraires de Rome ou il rencontre, entre autres, Ciceron et Cornelius Nepos. C'est la aussi qu'il fait la connaissance de celle qu'il surnomme Lesbie, qui torture son coeur, mais lui inspire ses plus beaux vers. Pour elle il part dans la lointaine Bithynie. A son retour, il meurt, age d'a peine trente ans.Notre edition rassemble les 116 poemes de Catulle, recueillis apres sa mort, ainsi que les fragments. L'introduction presente non seulement la vie du poete, mais aussi les milieux litteraires qui furent les siens ainsi que la poesie dont il s'inspira, notamment celle de Sappho et des poetes latins. L'histoire du texte et les principes d'edition viennent encore completer l'ouvrage, tandis que la lecture est eclairee par d'abondantes notes. L'ouvrage est encore enrichi par un Index nominum, un lexique, l'analyse metrique des poemes ainsi qu'un recent complement bibliographique.

Aquest volum presenta l’obra poètica completa de Catul, un dels principals poetes lírics de Roma. Nascut a principis del segle i aC en el si d’una família acomodada de Verona, els seus poemes, en general breus i contundents, sonen sorprenentment moderns i se serveixen de tots els tons del llenguatge: de l’humor i les grolleries, la tendresa i la solemnitat. El volum presenta el text original i la traducció, convenientment anotada, així com un pròleg de Mònica Miró Vinaixa, traductora i llatinista.

En unos poemas el lector encontrará encanto, dulzura, delicadeza, sensualidad; en otros, amargura, insulto; pero siempre con elegancia y refinamiento.

Poemas.Cayo Valerio CatuloCaius Valerius Catullus, en latínVerona, actual Italia, h. 87 a. C. - Roma, h. 54 a. C.

Cátulo es la figura dominantede los nuevos poetas de finales de la República, que introdujeron las exquisitas virtuosidades helenísticas.

La presente edición consta de116 poesias numeradas y una sin número.