Description
- Places Catullus in a social, historical, and literary context
- Examines Catallus's style and subjects, and provides a literary introduction to his major themes of love, social life, and politics
- Discusses the reception of the poems by translators and interpreters
About the Author
Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, and a past president of the American Philological Association. She is the author of Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999), and The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), and the editor of Catullus in English (2001), and Catullus (2007).
Book Information
ISBN 9781118255353
Author Julia Haig Gaisser
Format Paperback
Page Count 254
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 336g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 13mm