"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 Cesar, 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,...
"Peter Green is an outstanding translator. The reader's excited anticipation of pleasure and instruction on receiving a new translation of a Latin poet by Green is not disappointed. This is a labor of love which makes Catullus accessible to the Latinless reader and more familiar to those who can read Latin."Susan Treggiari, Stanford University"For almost half a century Peter Green has been one of the finest of all modern translators of classical verse. His Catullus is well up to his usual formrecapturing for a contemporary audience the wit, malice, erudition and erotic charm of the Latin original."Mary Beard, author of The Parthenon
Preface Acknowledgments AbbreviationsIntroduction Life and Background Lesbia/Clodia The Literary Context The Text: Arrangement and Transmission Reception and Reinterpretation Translation and Its Problems The Catullan Meters The Poems (1-116)Explanatory Notes Glossary Bibliography Index