Catullan Questions Revisited

by T.P. Wiseman

Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus' life and work. 'Lesbia' was not a woman in her thirties, as has been believed for 150 years, but a girl only recently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009235710
• ISBN13: 9781009235716
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"