The Student's Catullus

Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical author, ranking in popularity and importance with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. And for students and teachers of Latin, Daniel H. Garrison's The Student's Catullus is a definitive introductory text. This fourth edition, thoroughly revised, makes Catullus' famous poems more accessible than ever. A comprehensive reference, The Student's Catullus includes the following features: A brief overview of Catullus's life and artistic persona A fresh recension of all 113 poems A commentary in English on each poem, explaining difficult points of Latin and salient aspects of Catullus' artistry A Who's Who of the people in Catullus' poems An explanation of Catullan meters A glossary of literary terms used in the commentary A complete Latin-English Catullan vocabulary Six reference maps New to this fourth edition are dozens of additional