A Commentary on Catullus

Name: A Commentary on Catullus
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108012744
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ISBN: 9781108012744

by Robinson Ellis

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

ISBN-10 1108012744

ISBN-13 9781108012744

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 1st, 2010

Print length 472 Pages

Weight 614 grams

Dimensions 13.90 x 21.60 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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In this 1876 commentary Robinson Ellis portrays the life and work of Catullus, whose poetry illuminates the last years of the Roman Republic. Ellis examines the sources and textual history of the poems, discusses influences and metre, and speculates on the identity of the poet's beloved Lesbia.

This 1876 work is the magisterial commentary by the Oxford scholar Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) on the life and oeuvre of the Roman poet Catullus, whose work illuminates the closing years of the Roman Republic. Our knowledge of Catullus' life derives almost entirely from his own writings. Three manuscripts survive which contain a collection of poems that are ascribed to him, and all three date from the fourteenth century. Ellis considers the research that has already been undertaken on the poet and his environment but mostly draws on his own work in assessing the value of the Renaissance Italian commentators who established the generally accepted poetic canon. He traces the Greek influences that Catullus was exposed to and discusses his use of different metres, while also speculating on the identity of his beloved Lesbia, a controversial question still unresolved in the twenty-first century.

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