In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman lyric poets Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readings, and suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence

In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensiveoverview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullanstudies.* Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman'lyric poets'* Provides discussions about production, genre, style, andreception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groupsof poems* Grounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around him* Chapters challenge received wisdom, present original readingsand suggest new interpretations of biographical evidence

List of Illustrations xAcknowledgments xiAbbreviations xiiiNotes on Contributors xx1 Introduction 1Marilyn B. SkinnerPart I The Text and the Collection 112 History and Transmission of the Text 13J. L. Butrica3 Authorial Arrangement of the Collection: Debate Past andPresent 35Marilyn B. SkinnerPart II Contexts of Production 554 The Valerii Catulli of Verona 57T. P. Wiseman5 The Contemporary Political Context 72David Konstan6 The Intellectual Climate 92Andrew Feldherr7 Gender and Masculinity 111Elizabeth ManwellPart III Influences 1298 Catullus and Sappho 131Ellen Greene9 Catullus and Callimachus 151Peter E. KnoxPart IV Stylistics 17310 Neoteric Poetics 175W. R. Johnson11 Elements of Style in Catullus 190George A. Sheets12 Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse 212Brian A. KrostenkoPart V Poems and Groups of Poems 23313 Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, andUtility of a Concept 235William W. Batstone14 The Lesbia Poems 254Julia T. Dyson Hejduk15 Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus' Wedding Poems 276Vassiliki Panoussi16 Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and the Allusive Plot ofCatullus 64 293Jeri Blair DeBrohun17 Poem 68: Love and Death, and the Gifts of Venus and the Muses314Elena Theodorakopoulos18 Social Commentary and Political Invective 333W. Jeffrey TatumPart VI Reception 35519 Catullus and Horace 357Randall L. B. McNeill20 Catullus and Vergil 377Christopher Nappa21 Catullus and Roman Love Elegy 399Paul Allen Miller22 Catullus and Martial 418Sven Lorenz23 Catullus in the Renaissance 439Julia Haig Gaisser24 The Modern Reception of Catullus 461Brian ArkinsPart VII Pedagogy 47925 Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum 481Ronnie Ancona and Judith P. Hallett26 Catullus in the College Classroom 503Daniel H. GarrisonPart VIII Translation 52127 Translating Catullus 523Elizabeth VandiverConsolidated Bibliography 542General Index 568Index Locorum 585