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Catullus. Tibullus. Pervigilium Veneris

By Catullus and Tibullus
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Catullus. Tibullus. Pervigilium Veneris presents a rich collection of Latin poetry spanning personal passion, grief, and classical celebration. Catullus offers nearly sixty short lyrics and several longer poems revealing his intense emotions, including love for Lesbia, the loss of his brother, and his vibrant social life in Rome. Tibullus contributes elegies emanating raw love and longing, most notably for "Delia" and "Nemesis," with an intriguing addition of poems linked to Sulpicia. The Pervigilium Veneris completes the volume with a celebrated spring festival poem honouring Venus, marking a significant transition from classical to medieval romanticism.
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This volume appeals to enthusiasts of classical literature, students of Latin poetry, and readers interested in the emotional and artistic depths of ancient Roman verse.

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Catullus (84 54BCE) couples consummate poetic artistry with intensity of feeling. Tibullus (c. 54 19 BCE) proclaims love for Delia and Nemesis in elegy. The beautiful verse of the Pervigilium Veneris (fourth century CE?) celebrates a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love.

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Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 84–54 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams. All exemplify a strict technique of studied composition inherited from early Greek lyric and the poets of Alexandria. In his work, we can trace his unhappy love for a woman he calls Lesbia, the death of his brother, his visits to Bithynia, and his emotional friendships and enmities at Rome. For consummate poetic artistry coupled with the intensity of feeling, Catullus's poems have no rival in Latin literature.

Tibullus (Albius, ca. 54–19 BCE), of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. Three books of elegies have come down to us under his name, of which only the first two are authentic. Book 1 mostly proclaims his love for "Delia," Book 2 his passion for "Nemesis." The third book consists of a miscellany of poems from the archives of Messalla; it is very doubtful whether any come from the pen of Tibullus himself. However, a special interest attaches to a group of them which concern a girl called Sulpicia: some of the poems are written by her lover Cerinthus, while others purport to be her own composition.

Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its beauty and as the first clear note of romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature. The manuscripts give no clue to its author, but recent scholarship has made a strong case for attributing it to the early fourth-century poet Tiberianus.

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Michael Roberts commends the work as "an authoritative and up-to-date text" offering a translation that "communicates accurately and clearly the meaning of the Latin."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674990074

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 January 1913

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: Indexes

Contributors:

  • Translated by F. W. Cornish
  • Translated by J. P. Postgate
  • Revised by G. P. Goold
  • Translated by F. W. Cornish
  • Translated by J. P. Postgate
  • Translated by J. W. Mackail
  • Revised by G. P. Goold
  • Translated by F. W. Cornish
  • Translated by J. P. Postgate
  • Translated by J. W. Mackail
  • Revised by G. P. Goold

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 400

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Catullus Non-Fiction Series: Loeb Classical Library Tibullus

About the Author

Francis Warre Cornish (1839–1916) was a Master and Vice-Provost of Eton College. John Percival Postgate, FBA (1853–1926) was Professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool. John William Mackail, OM (1859–1945) was a Scottish man of letters and President of the British Academy. G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974–1999).

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