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Hidden Kisses in Catullus: Poems 5,6,7 and 8
Poems 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Catullus form an interconnected series. Catullus draws them together by referring to notions of display and concealment in a love affair. In particular, Catullus explores a paradox inherent in the competing needs to keep a relationship a secret and to announce it to the wider public. In the tongue-wagging world of Rome, hiding the existence of an affair, as Flavius attempts to do in poem 6, can never be successful and will attract the suspicious minds and cruel tongues of observers; hence Catullus advocates that Flavius confess, in order to control the gossip, in the case of poem 6, from Catullus himself. On the other hand, ostentatious display of felicity in love has the power to evoke the inuidia of the observer which can manifest itself in a hex upon the affair: to counter this, in poems 5 and 7, Catullus recommends that the affair, or at least its precise details, be hidden from those who would watch in an envious spirit (5.11-13, 7.11-12). There is something fundamentally perplexing about 5 and 7, since Catullus proclaims what he would conceal, leaving himself, his girl and his affair exposed to the inuidia he wishes to avoid.
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Lucan
A selection of essential essays, by leading scholars, on Lucan's civil war epic, De Bello Civili. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship and reception.
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LUCAN’S TENTH BOOK
In \"M. Annaei Lucani Bellum civile Liber X\", Emanuele Berti provides the first full-scale, published commentary in any language of the whole of Book Ten of Lucan's \"Bellum Civile\". The quality of this commentary makes it an important addition to the bibliography on Lucan.
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LUCAN'S TENTH BOOK; E. Berti (ed.): M. Annaei Lucani Bellum civile Liber X. (Biblioteca Nazionale, Serie dei Classici Greci e Latini, Testi con Commento Filologico, NS 7.) Pp. 384. Florence: Felice le Monnier, 2000. Paper, L. 70,000. ISBN: 88-00-81295-3
S. claims to part with the latter group in his insistence upon an author who need not imitate the incoherency of his universe to describe it (pp. 12). Despite S.s concern to position his work in opposition to what he promotes as the orthodox view of Lucan (pp. 12), he is revising and modifying the work of his predecessors (a particular and conscious influence is W. R. Johnson, Momentary Monsters: Lucan and his Heroes [Ithaca, 1987]), not presenting a new overall reading of the poem: as S. would have it of Lucans own adaptation of his predecessors, the (critical) tool in use throughout this study is the screwdriver, not the sledgehammer(p. 3). The nal two chapters isolate the main protagonists Cato (pp. 59100), Pompey (pp. 10627), and Caesar (pp. 12851). Because of the nature of uirtus, the discussion necessarily gravitates towards individual characters. [...]owing to the larger framework established in Chapter 1, its conclusions are relevant to more than just characterization: S. oers a consistent integration of the behaviour, ethics, and presentation of Lucans heroes with the universe established at the outset of the poem.
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