Concatenatio Catulliana - Paul Claes
a new reading of the Carmina
KORTE INHOUD
?Linear readings of Roman poetry books are - happily - gaining statistically on the type of approach that uses hypothetical poem dates to reconstruct the story of the liber?s composition, and C., who follows this trend, has produced a valuable contribution to our interpretation of such libra. In Catullus? case, the poem-by-poem strategy unearths powerful evidence to support the theory that this author set out the collected poems himself. (?) C.?s forte in the hunt for lexical and thematic links between carmina is evident: the obscene innuendo. Recent work on Roman sexualities will see itself corroborated as C. demonstrates that not merely pairs, but whole series of poems are interwoven with ambiguous expressions which signal that the texts - between the lines, at least - somehow have to do with the erotic ?lusus? typical of Catullus. (?) the puns C. discovers in this area will greatly stimulate modern readings, given that the existing commentaries (?) usually dodge the issue. In the allusions-to-contemporarie...
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Amsterdam, 2002. 173p. Original red gilt titled cloth. Name and date on half title. Series: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, 9. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: CLAES, P.,] [Uitgever: Gieben] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: Concatenatio Catulliana: A New Reading of the Carmina.]
