The Student's Catullus

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Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture Vol. 5

An annotated edition for students reading Catullus in Latin for the first time, this includes the Latin text of all poems with notes explaining the meaning of his language at points where the reader may encounter difficulties. Explanations of poetic diction and rhetoric, idiomatic usages, word order, sound effects, and metrical artistry are included, with background information about mythical allusions and the historical setting of Catullus' work. Appendices on persons referred to, meters used, literary terms used in the notes, and poetic variants of word forms are also provided to assist the reader. Four maps of the ancient world, a map illustrating the course of Catullus' yacht in Poem 4, and a star map illustrating Poem 66 supplement the notes. At the end is a complete lexicon of the Catullan vocabulary.

First issued in 1989, this has become the standard annotated edition of Catullus for classroom use. The third edition was issued November, 2004 by the University of Oklahoma Press.