Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus

Name: Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus
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ISBN: 9781928650331

ISBN-10: 1928650333

ISBN-13: 9781928650331

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Authors: Brandon Brown

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Poetry. Ever since the poems of Catullus were discovered in a wine cask in Verona in the 13th century, translators have returned to them over and over, insisting on their continued relevance. These troubling poems have scandalized and delighted generations of readers in translation, as they apparently scandalized and perhaps delighted the literary coterie surrounding Catullus in pre-revolutionary Rome. Brandon Brown's THE POEMS OF GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS is a translation in which the decadent excesses of ascending Roman hegemony meet the decadent excesses of collapsing American domination. The meeting is staged as half confrontation, half party. And this confrontation/party monster goes…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Krupskaya
Publication date: 10/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English