2018

 «Paideia» 73, 2018, Pars prima

Tamás Adamik, The Structure and the Function of Similes in Catullus’ Poetry, pp. 9-29

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There are a lot of similes in the poems of Catullus. Approaching the similes from the side of signans, we divide them into two big groups: sentence-similes and word-similes. In the sentence-simile we compare one situation with another, in word simile one word with another. Catullus further increases the effect of the above mentioned similes by illustrating a compared element by several comparative parts. In order to achieve special stylistic aims Catullus accumulates similes. According to Aristotle: «The simile is also useful in prose, but should be less frequently used, for there is something poetical about it».

Keywords: simile; sentence-simile; word-simile; direct; indirect.

Antonella Borgo, Villette, ipoteche e debiti: a proposito di un tema poetico (Furio Bibaculo frr. 2 e 3 Tr.; Catullo 26), pp. 31-42

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Some poems of Catullus (26; 31; 44) deal with real estate properties, houses and villas, his own or owned by some of his friends, sometimes pictured ironically asmodest or subject to ruinous debts, such as the villula of C. 26, of uncertain property because the manuscript tradition oscillates between nostra (of the poet) and vestra (of the recipient Furius). This Furius, if one identifies him with Furius Bibaculus, composed himself a piece on Valerius Cato, a poet and philologist who had fallen into misery after losing his Tusculanum over debts (FRR. 2 and 3 Tr.). These poetic themes represent a society in crisis, where ambiguous characters, such as Mamurra, suddenly have acquired their fortunes ( CC. 29; 114; 115). Within a few years, the villula and the agellus of the Catalepton 8 of the Appendix Vergiliana will represent different ideals of life and the new cultural horizons of the Augustan poetry.

Keywords: poverty; debts; neoteric and Catullian poetry.

Alberto Canobbio, Rileggendo il carme 10 di Catullo: una proposta esegetico-testuale per i versi 9-13, pp. 43-55

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This paper examines the different solutions suggested in the past for the text and exegesis of Catull. 10,9-13 and starting from an idea of Munro (1878) aims to solve the various problems raised by scholars about these verses modifying only the punctuation.

Keywords: Catullus; classical philology; textual criticism; punctuation.

 

Gregson Davis, The text of Catullus Carm. 4,19: the case for conjectural emendation, pp. 57-62

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This paper proposes a conjectural emendation in Catullus 4,19 where the reading erum tulisse is unanimously accepted by modern editors. It argues that the lexeme erum is incompatible with the inflated, epicizing style of the embedded speaker, the personified phaselus. The proposed emendation, iter tulisse, is in tune with the parodic context of the vessel’s pretentious speech.

Keywords: erum; emendation; phaselus; parody.

 

Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini, Per una storia della fortuna catulliana in età imperiale: riflessioni su Catullo in Seneca, pp. 63-80

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This article focuses on several passages of Seneca’s works in which the philosopher quotes or alludes to famous poems by Catullus: in Apoc. 11,6 he undoubtedly quotes Catull. 12,3, while in the Epistles to Lucilius 93,11 and 123,10-11 it is more difficult to decide whether he alludes to Catullus’ poems or he uses a language only near to the neoteric style or vocabulary. It is also interesting to observe that the poems quoted or alluded to are the short poems and not the epyllion for the marriage of Peleus and Thetis: also in the tragedies, where the main influence of c. 64 has been sometimes hypothesized, the most important allusion is in my opinion from c. 11.

Keywords: Catullus’ influence; Seneca’s philosophical works; Seneca’s tragedies.

 

Simone Gibertini, Integrazioni alla bibliografia critica del Codex Traguriensis (Paris, B. N. F., Latin 7989): 1961-1999, pp. 81-92

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This paper integrates the bibliography (1961-1999) about the manuscript Paris, B. N. F., Latin 7989, so-called codex Traguriensis, published on «Paideia» 70, 2015, pp. 393-452. Keywords: Manuscript Paris, B. N. F., Lat. 7989; codex Traguriensis, Bibliography 1961-1999.

 

Robert Drew Griffith, The Clueless Cuckold and the She-Mule’s Shoe (Catullus 17,23-26), pp. 93-101

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The inattentive husband whom Catullus wants to throw off a bridge in poem 17 is Metellus Celer, the poet’s municeps, either because he shares with him the munuscula of his wife, Clodia, or because, having thwarted Cataline’s escape via Fiesole, he is an honorary Cisalpine Gaul. That Metellus will lose his lazy mind in the mud as a she-mule might her shoe recalls Jason, who lost a sandal in the Anaurus river. The fact that the mule is female emphasizes the self-emasculation constituted by Metellus neglecting his attractive wife. Keywords: adultery; Catullus; “Lesbia”; monosandalism; mules.

Boris Hogenmüller, Bemerkungen zur Intra- und Intertextualität von Cat. c. 68, 1-10, pp. 103-115

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Catullus’ famous c. 68 is an often discussed topic in modern research. Apart from different problems concerning the inner structure of the poem and the allusions on other poems of Catullus, it seems obviously that there are also similarities – especially in the composition of the situation of the ‘persona Catulli’ – to an epigram of Callimachus, which are not mentioned until now. The present paper thus focuses on this special dependence of c. 68 on Call. epigr. 41 and attempts to identify parallels and motives. Keywords: Catullus; Callimachus; c. 68; dependence; allusion.

Wolfgang Hübner, „Katulla“ – Geschlechtsumwandlung bei Catull, pp. 117-138

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This contribution consists in two parts: a) Long since one has observed a certain feminility in Catullus’ personality. This has been taken over recently in feministic interpretations, but one has to consider also many surprising grammatical and stylistc effects, in particular in c. 63 on Attis. b) As for the constellations the Romans replaced the Greek masculine  αστήρ by stella. Consequantly, for the Coma Berenices Callimachus uses masculine nouns like πλόκαμος or βόστρυχος, while Catullus employs the Greek, but latinized form coma that we use, through scientific Latin, until today. Keywords: Attis; Coma Berenices; gender (grammatical or sociological); Anna Elissa Radke.

 

Konrad Kokoszkiewicz, A Note on Catullus 68b,157-158, pp. 139-146

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A solution is suggested to the problem posed by lines 68b,157-158. Keywords: Catullus; Allius; interpolation; manuscript tradition; textual criticism.

 

David Konstan, Two Trips to Bithynia? A Note on Catullus’ Phaselus, pp. 147-155

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In this paper it is argued that the speaker in Catullus c. 4 fashions a speech (an instance of prosopopoeia) by a real boat, very likely moored in Lake Garda, which bore him home from a visit to the grave of his brother in Bithynia (cfr. c. 101). This was not, however, the occasion when he served in the entourage of the propraetor C. Memmius, the return from which is noted in c. 46. Rather, Catullus made an earlier journey specifically to honor his brother. That the boat dedicates itself to Castor and Pollux suggests the profound love that Catullus felt for his deceased brother. Keywords: phaselus; Bithynia; prosopopoeia; seafaring; mourning.

Leah Kronenberg, Catullus 34 and Valerius Cato’s Diana, pp. 157-173

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This article argues that Catullus c. 34, the “Hymn to Diana” contains coded critique of Valerius Cato’s lost poem the Diana. Catullus uses metapoetic language to present the Diana as an Antimachean poem that is over-long, oldfashioned, overly obscure, and generally uncouth. I also consider possible connections between Cato’s Diana and Antimachus’ lost Artemis. Keywords: Catullus; Valerius Cato; Callimachus; Antimachus.

Alfredo Mario Morelli, “Il disunito filo che ci unisce”. La traduzione catulliana di Enzo Mazza, pp. 175-202

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The translation of Catullus’ Liber by Enzo Mazza in 1962 (Guanda, Parma) is analyzed by identifying on the one hand the links with Mazza’s overall activity as a poet and intellectual (especially during the 1960s: a large number of interesting allusions can be found in works such as 70 epigrammi), on the other the elements of continuity and discontinuity with the Catullian poetic translations published in that same period of time, especially with the ones by Salvatore Quasimodo (1955) and Guido Ceronetti (1969). Keywords: Enzo Mazza; Salvatore Quasimodo; Guido Ceronetti; Catullus; translation.

Camillo Neri,“Fiamme gemelle”. Storia di un (possibile) rapporto intertestuale, pp. 203-220

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A possible intertextual relationship between Catullus (51,7-16), Propertius (2,3a,9-22), Virgil (Aen. 8,678-681) and Ovid (Met. 3,420-426), centered on the image of the eyes as “twin flames”. Keywords: Catullus; Propertius; Virgil; Ovid.

John Kevin Newman, Catullus and Love Poetry, pp. 221-244

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Abstract Catullus is often the first author read by embryo Latinists, because his work is thought to be simple, obvious and primarily occupied by a love affair with “Lesbia”, or indeed by “love” in general. But love is more than sex, literature is more complex than is thought. Catullus takes his place there as a mimester, using lepidus and nugae in his first poem. He emerges as partly a critic of his society and partly a man longing for a marriage and a domus which he can never secure. Born in Verona, he is also an Etruscan, and inclined therefore to unhappy endings, to tragedy. Horace too, also a writer of nugae, is an outsider, and yet, like Catullus, with whose works he was familiar, so much more . Keywords: domus; lepidus; nugae; Roma; Verona.

 

Mariantonietta Paladini, Ancora sul carme 17 di Catullo: dai fescennini a Claudiano, pp. 245-267

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Abstract This article concerns Catullus’ c. 17 and his verses 18-19 alnus / in fossa Liguri iacet suppernata securi, here explained for the first time as a Priapean topos, probably enriched by obscenity and agricultural allusions. Both of them are typical of the ancient and lost fescennina, but this assumption could be confirmed by the similarity between some Catullan expressions and some elements belonging to the perfectly preserved Claudianus’ fescennina. The final result is: maybe some words of the ancient Roman rural society of fescennina survived within the republican poetry. Keywords: Catullus; fescennina iocatio; priapean topos; Claudianus.

Paola Paolucci, L’imbarcazione, il mulattiere ed il fungo, pp. 269-277

 

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The paper examines the parody of the Catullus’ Phaselus and of the pseudovirgilian Sabinus ille (Catal. 10), made by Iulius Caesar Scaliger with a spirit of invective against E. Dolet. According to the requirements of humanistic poetics, parody was perceived as a genre contiguous to the cento and was therefore realized with verses and halflines of poems by various poets or of various poems by the same author subject to the parody. The investigation about the hapax ‘sicula’ from Catullus’ poem 67, employed by Scaliger in his parody, shows the genesis of a humanistic correction to the poem AL 206 R2, known thanks to the so-called schedae Divionenses. Finally, other quotes from various poets employed by Scaliger in his parody are indicated. Keywords: Catullo; Parodie del Phaselus; Poetica di Giulio Cesare Scaligero; Anthologia Latina 206 R. 2nd ed.

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Sopionibus scribam (Catull. 37,10). Sacerdote, Petronio, Syneros, Catullo: una nota esegetica, pp. 279-294

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The article offers an in-depth examination of Catullus’ discussed reading sopionibus scribam (37,10) and of the possible meaning of sopio in the Liber and in the further contexts where this word is found ( i.e.: Petron. 22; Sacerdos’ grammar, GL VI 461, 30 – 462, 3 K; CIL IV 1700). Putting together literary evidence and graffiti from Pompei drives towards a factual and icastic interpretation: Catullus seemed to want to soil and fill the wall of the salax taberna with insulting drawings of penis against the sessores who had subtracted him his Lesbia. Keywords: Catullus 37, 10; sopio; Pompeian graffiti; agnomen.

Maria Teresa Schettino, Catullo e i suoi sodales: una generazione sospesa tra le guerre civili, pp. 295-323

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This article aims to study the political relations drawn up by Catullus’ poems between successive generations and to examine the overall vision resulting from the allusions to the figures mentioned, his silences and the judgments expressed by the poet on the politicians of his time. Keywords: Catullus; Late Republic; post-Sullanian generation; sodales.

Étienne Wolff, Catulle (ou son absence) dans la poésie de Janus Pannonius (1434-1472), pp. 325-331

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Abstract Pannonius in his epigrams mentions once Catullus and there are in his work some traces of the poet of Verona. Less doubtless than in the Panormite, Guarino, Landino or above all Pontano, but Pannonius is nevertheless an interesting and little known link in the reception of Catullus. Keywords: Pannonius; Catullus; epigram; imitation.

«Paideia» 73, 2018, Pars secunda

 

Neil Adkinn, Cunni(ng) cacemphaton in Catullus, pp. 725-732

 

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The present article endeavours to show that in c. 5,5 and again in c. 25,1 Catullus has cleverly inserted a cacemphatic reference to the taboo-word cunnus. The poet has also embedded a number of clues to put the reader on the qui-vive for this cacemphaton. Keywords: cacemphaton; cunnus; Lesbia; Thallus.

Emanuela Andreoni Fontecedro, Una “citazione” nascosta di Catullo in Cicerone?, pp. 733-738

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In his de senectute Cicero has in mind the opening words to Catullus’ carmen 76. Cicero’ criticism stems from his ongoing diatribe against Epicureanisms, as in his similar criticism of Lucretius in the de re publica. Keywords: Cicero; Catullus; Lucretius; concordances.

 

Krystyna Bartol, Catullo, 64,19-21: una reminiscenza alcaica?, pp. 739-747

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In this article I argue that the phrase fertur in Catullus 64,19 is a learned reference to Alcaeus’ poem (42 V.). It serves to illustrate the relationship between the Catullan account of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis and the traditional version of this story. I try to show that through the imitation of the Alcaic ὠς λόγος Catullus sets his place in the literary tradition, and that forming his image as a follower of Alacaeus combines both contentual and verbal dimensions of the hypotext. Keywords: Catullus 64; Alcaeus, 42 V.; Catullan intertextuality; ‘Alexandrian footnote’.

 

Alessia Bonadeo, Pranzo al sacco o tenzone poetica? Una rilettura di Catull. 13, pp. 749-773

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Distant from the thesis either of the so-called revisionists, who, in the name of a food-sex association, find heavy sexual allusions behind the motif of dinner, or of the so-called programmists, who transform the convivial occasion into a pretext for a poetic manifesto, I propose reading c. 13 as an invitation at the same time to dinner and to a poetic tenson or mutual exchange of verses in the manner of the poetic competition described in c. 50. What contributes to orient interpretation in this direction is the double sense of many words that have a meaning connected with the sphere of both banquet and poetry. Keywords: poetic tenson; metapoetic indications; double meaning; invitation poem.

Gabriele Burzacchini, Memoria saffica in Catullo: un nuovo caso?, pp. 775-794

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This paper aims at suggesting a probable relation between the final apostrophe to the Muse in Sappho P. Köln XI 429 inv. 21351 col. I 11 (= fr. 58b,11) and the same in Catullus 1,9 s. Keywords: Sappho; Catullus; Muse; final apostrophe.

Malcolm Davies, Catullus 61: cletic and encomiastic conventions, pp. 795-809

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So extraordinarily subtle are the uses of traditional and pre-existing motifs from Greek sacral poetry in Catullus 61, that some of them have been revealed for the first time in this study. Keywords: epithalamium; cletic prayer; hymn; encomium.

Rosalba Dimundo, Il motivo del verberare puellam negli elegiaci latini, pp. 811-827

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Violence against women is a theme that with sad frequency daily fills the news columns; however, stories of abused women are not a sign of the degeneration of today’s society alone, for they are attested in literature of every age that clearly illustrate terrible situations in real life. The subject of violence against women has ancient origins, going back at least as far as Menander’s Perikeiromene, its literary influence being documented not only in theatre plays comedy, but also in other literary genres, from elegy to Late epistolography and epigrammatic. Particularly in Latin elegy, the verberatio of the beloved may be totally gratuitous (Ov. Am. 1,7) or enacted by Love (Tib. 1,10). However, the elegies we have studied show that in most cases it is jealousy that arouses violence. If, besides being jealous, the man is drunk, then violence becomes overwhelming and desperate. In the complex articulation of Latin elegy, it is not surprising that the motif of violence against women converges with erotic instruction and becomes a true praeceptum meant to “lighten” the pockets of the unfortunate lover. Keywords: woman; violence; elegiac poets.

 

Paolo Gatti, Nonio Marcello e Catullo, pp. 829-835

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Analysis of the 5 quotations of Catullus in the Compendiosa doctrina by Nonius Marcellus. Keywords: Catullus; Nonius Marcellus; fragments; indirect text transmission.

 

John Godwin, The Ironic Epicurean in Poems 23, 114, 115, pp. 837-851

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Some of the poetry of Catullus has been seen as supporting the assertion that the poet was strongly influenced by the philosophy of Epicurus. This paper tests this hypothesis by examining several poems which seem to make use of Epicurean ideas, and concludes that the poetry uses philosophy for the expression of literary and satirical purposes rather than being the vehicle by which philosophy is promoted. Keywords: Catullus; Epicurus; Philosophy; Satire.

 

Stephen Harrison, Further notes on the text and interpretation of Catullus, pp. 853-865

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This article discusses a number of textually problematic passages of Catullus, suggesting some new interpretations and making some new conjectures. Passages treated are 2,6; 30,4-5; 32,4; 35,17; 36,2; 39,20; 64,24, 292, 300; 66,43,55-56,77-78, 83,93-94; 96,1; 97,10; 98,6. Keywords: Catullus; Latin poetry; textual criticism; literary interpretation.

 

Frederick Jones, Catullus’ libellus and Catullan aesthetics, pp. 867-890

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The immediate and mid-term legacy of Catullus’ body of poetry is disparate and the corpus itself reaches us in a format without parallel in ancient poetry. However, the way the poems were put together for an audience would have been a crucial factor in determining audience reaction. This paper considers the aesthetics of Catullus’ short poems in the light of the possible packages in which they were arranged. In fulfilment of this purpose, I look particularly at Carm. 1 and 50. My conclusion is that Catullus made from an anarchic mixture of attested genres a new genre which embodied a new aesthetics and a new personal and poetic ideology and that this treatment of genre explains the diversity of his poetry. Keywords: Catullus; genre; polymetric; aesthetics; libellus.

Boris Kayachev, Catullus 64,71: a textual note, pp. 891-893

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The paper endorses Baehrens’s neglected conjecture fluctibus for luctibus at Catullus 64,71. Keywords: Catullus; Latin poetry; textual criticism; Emil Baehrens.

 

Severin Koster, 22: Ein anderer Catull?, pp. 895-901

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Carmen 22 is not a mocking poem on Suffenus, but a lecture for his friend Varus. The latter ought to realize, that Suffenus’ poems do not match up to the neoterics’ demands in any way. Catullus is trying in a friendly way to talk him out of his wrong assessment. Keywords: Literary criticism; lesson by letter; loyalty; friendship.

 

David Kutzko, Isolation and Venustas in Catullus 13 and the Catullan Corpus, pp. 903-923

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13 is often treated separately from Catullus’ other poems as an unusually light poem. I argue, on the contrary, that it is one of many in which Catullus highlights his friends’ happy amorous state in contrast to his own isolation. Fabullus is venustus and Lesbia is graced by the Venuses and Cupids, but Catullus sits alone, bitterly longing for the parties and gaiety no longer in his house. In the process of demonstrating this reading, I analyze other poems in which Catullus addresses or visits friends (cc. 6, 10, 35, and 55) and reassess the sparrow poems (cc. 2-3) from the standpoint of Catullus’ pose of isolation. I conclude by looking to c. 112, addressed to a certain Naso, as a possible explanation for the joke at the end of c. 13, where Catullus tells Fabullus he will want to turn into one giant nose (13,13-14). Keywords: venustas; isolation; Lesbia; Catullus 13.

Miryam Librán Moreno, El ave daulíade: Catul. 65,12-14 y sus precedentes griegos, pp. 925-935

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Catul. 65,12-14 is a contaminatio of two literary models, Hom. Od. 19,518-524 and the local Phocian-Athenian variant of Procne’s and Tereus’ myth. Daulias (14) is a learned etymological wordplay that clarifies the meaning of χλωρηίς, the nightingale’s epithet in Od. 19,518. The Phocian-Athenian variant of the myth alluded to by Daulias connotes banishment from home, remoteness from human contact, and isolation in empty places. Catullus uses these nuances to portray the unfortunate fate of his dead brother, buried very far away from home. Keywords: Catullus; Nightingale; Daulis; Intertextuality; Homer.

Giancarlo Mazzoli, Iam: una particella molto catulliana, pp. 937-953

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From lepos to pathos, from rite to myth to βεβιωμένον, the use of iam particle (43 occurrences) adds vivid impulses of urgency to Catullian perception and expression of temporality. Thus its presence plays within the Liber a remarkable function of semantic and even structural support. Keywords: Catullus; iam; semantics; structures.

 

Luigi Piacente, Catullo a casa Guarini, pp. 955-965

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With this research the author, according to surviving evidence, recontructs the studies upon Catullus’s poetry carried out by the main Guarini family representatives: the father, Guarino, his son Battista and his grandchild Alessandro. Their cultural interest went through a century, starting from the beginning of the 15th century, to 1521: in this year was published in Venice an edition of Catullus’s carmina made by Alessandro Guarini. Keywords: Catullus; Guarini (Guarinus, Baptista, Alexander).

 

Bruna Pieri, Nimio Veneris odio: Catullo ‘tragico’ in Seneca ‘lirico’, pp. 967-987

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In the opening monody of Seneca’s Phaedra some features remind us of Catullus’ Attis poem. This allusion, which is probably mediated by the episode of Numanus Remulus in Aeneid book 9, and can be explained through the common mythical pattern of the “chasseur noir”, serves to depict the furor of Hippolytus, who transforms Attis’ odium Veneris into a more general hatred towards an ethically corrupt humanity. In his irrational impulse to flee from community, one can detect the traits of fuga sui, a vitium which is condemned by Seneca in his De tranquillitate animi. Like other Senecan monodies, Hippolytus’ anapaestic song therefore fulfills the task of representing the delirium of a character. Keywords: Catullus’ Attis; Seneca; Hippolytus; Numanus Remulus; Phaedra; Senecan monodies.

 

Rémy Poignault, Catulle chez Marguerite Yourcenar, pp. 989-1001

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Marguerite Yourcenar translated/adapted some Catullus’s lines in her Juvenilia. She quotes him on several occasions in her work, where he represents a saucy poetry that is close to everyday life. When she deals with the myth of Ariadne and Theseus, she uses carmen 64 among other sources, giving to the myth, whose sacred aura she takes away, a quite personal meaning. Keywords: Yourcenar; Catullus; translation; Ariadne; Theseus; rewriting of the myth.

 

Giovanni Polara, Il Catullo di Francesco Arnaldi, pp. 1003-1024

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Francesco Arnaldi (1897-1980) published several studies on Catullo; twenty years after Catullo e Clodia («RFIC» 1927) and the review of M. Lenchantin de Gubernatis’s commentary («RFIC» 1929) his most important works were published: the commentary (1948, 19502), the pages in the Antologia della poesia latina (I, 1953-19676), the Catullan paragraph of the Storia della letteratura latina dell’età repubblicana in the Guida, edited with V. Ussani (I, 1954, 19612). Arnaldi examines the poet with his personal reading method, with fine sensitivity and acute insights. Keywords: Catullus; Francesco Arnaldi; Hermeneutic; Literary criticism.

 

Chiara Renda, Riflessi catulliani nella poetica di Fedro, pp. 1025-1037

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Phaedrus collection contains many catullian reflections both on the level of literary tought, on lexical choose and for some common themes. He inserts so in a new and original way the Esopic fable in callimachean poetic that he shares with Catullus. Keywords: callimachean and catullian poetry; Esopic fable; Phaedrus poetic.

 

Marcos Ruiz Sánchez, Catulo ante la encrucijada de los géneros, pp. 1039-1062

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The reception of Catullus in Neo-Latin literature is determined by the concept of the genres of the era and by the interpretive and poetic tradition. This becomes apparent in the controversy concerning the canon of the epigram in the poetic treaties of the 16th and 17th centuries and also in the Catullian style Neo-Latin poetry. Catullus and other Latin writers are used in this way as models whose influence goes far beyond the echolalia of specific imitations. Keywords: Genres; Neo-Latin poetry; Catullian influence; epigram.

 

Stefania Santelia, ‘Riusi’ di Orienzio: saggio di commento a Comm. 1,1-42; 2,1-12 e 407-418, pp. 1063-1090

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The analysis of three chosen passages of Orientius’ Commonitorium (incipit of the I and II book; explicit of the II book) highlights the ways in which the Gallo-Roman bishop employs the classical tradition. This could either be a perfunctory reuse, almost mechanical, of lexical fragments that have no connection, in terms of meaning, with the new text; or it could be a reuse of the hypotext on a deeper level, to resemble it or, on the contrary, to express something utterly different. The exegesis reveals Orientius’ clever art of “weaving” texts. As a didaskalos, he imparts to the readers monita they must comply with, in order to obtain salvation: the auctores of the past (from Lucretius to Statius, from Cicero and Virgil to Ovid and Seneca) blend with the Scriptures and with Christian authors (from Tertullian to Damasus, from Ambrose to Augustine and Prosperus) in order to express the meaning of the new Christian sensibility. Keywords: Catullus; classical philology; textual criticism; punctuation.

Aldo Setaioli, La dedica di Catullo a Cornelio Nepote, pp. 1091-1106

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In Catullus’ first poem his appreciation of Cornelius Nepos’ historical work is sincere, and it is expressed in terms reminiscent of his own poetical creed, as symbolized by the traits ostensibly describing the appearance of the libellus he dedicates to the historian. The contents of this libellus are impossible to ascertain; possibly it contained the first sixty poems of the Catullan corpus transmitted to us. The nugae referred to in this poem are probably earlier than the poems included in the libellus. There are several good reasons to retain the invocation to the Muse at line 9. The poet asks her for a modest “immortality”: the survival of his poetry for more than one generation. Keywords: Catullus; Cornelius Nepos; libellus; Muse.

 

Giuseppe Solaro, Cesare, Clodia e quell’eterno tormento, pp. 1107-1114

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A little naively Suetonius writes that Caesar would have forgiven quite caustic poets like Catullus and Calvus thanks to his mildness; instead, according to Tacitus, he would have rather done it for a political advantage. In any case, as we know, Catullus turned his irony also against Cicero, who in his speech Pro Caelio did not fail to describe the easy virtue of Clodia, that is the very Lesbia who had completely upset the soul of the Latin writer, making him change from one feeling to another as it had previously happened to some of the greatest Greek poets. Keywords: power; love; disappointments; imitation.

 

Renzo Tosi, Osservazioni in margine al carme 86 di Catullo, pp. 1115-1122

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According to Catullus (carm. 86) Quintia is good-looking but not formosa, because there is not any mica salis. It is useful to see it in the light of the proverbial opposition between beauty and wit. Lesbia only has both these qualities. Keywords: Latin Literature; Catullus; proverbs; beauty; wit.

 

Timothy Peter Wiseman, Why is Ariadne Naked? Liberior iocus in Catullus 64, pp. 1123-1165

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A collection of the scattered evidence for erotic entertainment in the Roman world provides an unexpected explanation for a puzzling Catullan passage (64,60-70), and a possible answer to the difficult question ‘what was an epyllion?’. Keywords: Ariadne; epyllion; erotic entertainment; mime; performance.

 

 

«Paideia» 73, 2018, Pars tertia

 

Armando Bisanti, Tematiche e suggestioni catulliane in Carmina Burana 119 e 120, pp. 1487-1523

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Carmina Burana (CB) 119 (Dulce solum natalis patrie) and 120 (Rumor letalis) are two medieval latin love poems of XIIth-XIIIth century which both show Catullan flavour, themes and suggestions. In this paper, after a short introduction about the very exiguous knowledge of Catull’s poems between VIth and XIIIth century, I try to give a strict analysis of CB 119 and 120, at the light of Catullan themes and suggestions which occur in these poems. Keywords: Carmina Burana (CB); Catullus; classical tradition; intertextuality; classical and medieval love poetry.

Silvia Condorelli, Non est turpe, magis miserum est: considerazioni in merito a Catullo 68,30, pp. 1525-1545

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The line 30 of Catullus’ c. 68 (id, mi Alli, non est turpe, magis miserum est), read as an answer of the poet to the words of his friend Allius (ll. 27-29), places an ethical and rhetorical clarification. Pointing out that his own situation is not turpis, but rather miser, Catullus provides an indication that is the premise of the love elegy’s feature of the poem. Keywords: Catullus; miser; love Latin elegy .

 

Rosa Maria D’Angelo, Il linguaggio della memoria e dell’ingratitudine in Cat. 73 fra etica romana e tradizione retorica, pp. 1547-1562

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The stylistic and lexical features of poem 73 show that Catullus’ thoughts on ingratitude fall within a wide rhetorical context, which in turn reveals the profound connections with the Roman notion of the beneficium (from Plautus to the Epigrammata Bobiensia). It is expressed by the rhetorical tradition through the lexicon, where the concept of memoria, the value of gratia, the principle of misericordia, the execration of non pius man prevail. Keywords: value of friendship; notion of the beneficium; ingratitude; rhetorical context; stylistic and lexical features.

 

Marc Dominicy, Critical Notes on The Lock of Berenice (Callimachus 110 Pf., Catullus 66), pp. 1563-1587

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This article deals with the textual criticism of Callimachus’ and Catullus’ Lock of Berenice. A case is made for the following reconstructions or emendations in the Greek or Latin poem: depinxit limina (1); quam ad cultus illa deorum / […] pollicita est (9-10); quod matris acumen replacing quem maxima/-um in oris (43); ἥ τε Κανωπίτου ναιέτις Ἑλλὰς ἄκρου (58); omnibus ut substituting for the nonsensical hi dii uen ibi (59); quicum ego, dum uirgo illa quidem fuit, omnibus expers / conubii unguentis milia pura bibi (77-78); nominis preferred to sanguinis or unguinis (91); ὡς […] / αὐτὸς ἅμ᾽ Ὑδροχοεῖ καὶ φλέγοι Ὠαρίων, with Hydrochoi a dative in Catullus (93-94); effice […], / sidera tu cum iteres, ut iam coma regia fiam, / proximus Hydrochoi fulguret Oarion (92-94). Keywords: Callimachus; Catullus; Lock of Berenice; textual criticism.

 

Monica R. Gale, Between Pastoral and Elegy: The Discourse of Desire in Catullus 45, pp. 1589-1604

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Catullus is widely regarded as an important precursor of Latin Love Elegy. Poems 68 and 76, in particular, are regularly cited as models for the elegists’ intense focus on their own emotions and for their characteristic use of mythological paradigms. This article argues that a third poem, the “love-duet” between Acme and Septimius, has been overlooked by critics in this connection. The language of both lovers in the Catullan lyric foreshadows the typically elegiac figures of militia amoris and servitium amoris, but with the crucial difference that their desire is emphatically mutual, in contrast to the conventionally unhappy and at best partially requited loves of elegy. Nevertheless, many commentators have perceived a degree of irony in Catullus’ handling of the couple and their highly stylized declarations of shared passion. This ironic element may be connected both with the elegists’ characteristically double-edged self-depiction and with the similarly ambivalent portrayal of the rustic characters of bucolic/pastoral poetry: just as Theocritus’ reader is at once invited to envy the herdsman’s naïve innocence and to enjoy a sense of urbane superiority, so Catullus’ lovers are both idealized and made a source of detached humour. In transplanting his lovers from the countryside to a (presumably) sophisticated urban environment, Catullus makes a crucial move which was to prove decisive for the poets of the next generation. Keywords: Catullus; Theocritus; pastoral poetry; love elegy.

 

Shane Hawkins, Catullus c. 11 and the iambic herald, pp. 1605-1616

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In poem 11 Catullus commissions Furius and Aurelius with the task of delivering a bitter message to Lesbia. I suggest that in so doing the poet alludes to a longstanding figure of invective, the iambic herald, whose marginal status supports an ironical reading of poem 11 and helps to answer the question of how the travelogue fits into this poem and the surrounding poems in the text of Catullus. Keywords: Catullus; iambic; herald; Archilochus.

 

Christine Kossaifi, Le poète-araignée. Quelques réflexions sur les Carmina de Catulle, pp. 1617-1637

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In this paper, I explore the significance of the spider, which appears in some of Catullus’ Carmina (13, 23, 25 and 68). The etymological roots of the word, and the way the insect functions in the whole collection indicate an image of poetic weaving, in keeping with Callimachean aesthetics. By spinning out his threads in a subtle and refined web, the poet transforms the real world into a cathartic matrix. Keywords: spider; Callimachean aesthetics; Catullus; aranea.

 

Sven Lorenz, Berühmte Namen: „Catullus“ und „Corvinus“ in Juvenals zwölfter Satire, pp. 1639-1659

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In his twelfth satire, Juvenal addresses a certain Corvinus and tells him about his amicus Catullus, who has just escaped shipwreck. The use of the names of such prominent literary figures has an impact on the way the readers understand the poem. The famous names raise expectations as to what turn the poem may take – expectations, which then may or may not be fulfilled. In fact, Satire 12 contains numerous unpredictable twists and turns. The connotations of the names Catullus and Corvinus contribute to the surprising nature of the poem. Keywords: Juvenal; satire; Catullus; Messala Corvinus.

 

Rosa Maria Lucifora, Una guida agli Elisi: appunti sul Carme 76 di Catullo, pp. 1661-1674

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Catullus’ Carmen 76 leaves a trace in the “memory” of Tibullus, sick and afraid of death (1,3), and of Ovid exul (trist. 4,10): “sick with love”, Catullus addresses a heartfelt prayer to the Gods, asking «extremam iam in morte opem», in exchange for his fides and vita pura. Tibullus and Ovid repeat his solemn oath before the severe tribunals of Hades and of Augustus; Ovid also indicates in purity of the soul the basic requisite to lead the Elegiac colleagues to the Elysian Fields (am. 3,9) and to justify himself. Keywords: Social Ethic; Purity of the soul; textual criticism; elegiac Survival.

Enrico Magnelli, Catullo, Simonide e il proemio innodico per gli eroi del mito, pp. 1675-1681

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Though the end of the hymnic proem to Catullus’ poem 64, ll. 22-24, has the final passage of Apollonius’ Argonautica (4,1773-1775) as its primary model, it also owes something to the farewell to Achilles closing the hymnic section – in all likelihood, a proem as well – of Simonides’ elegy celebrating the battle of Plataea (fr. 11,13-21 W.2 = 3b,9-17 G.-P. 2nd ed.). Keywords: Catullus; Simonides; hymnic proems; ancient epic; Latin poetry.

 

Gesine Manuwald, Catullus and Martial in Thomas Campion’s Epigrams, pp. 1683-1699

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This paper explores the influence of the poetry of Catullus, both on his own and as filtered by Martial, on the Latin epigrams of the British Elizabethan / Jacobean writer Thomas Campion (1567–1620). By looking at a selection of examples, the study shows how Campion’s epigrams adopt and develop a number of motifs from Catullus, some of which had been taken up by Martial. The creative reworking of such elements contributes to enabling Campion to establish an individual brand of epigrams suitable for his own time. Keywords: Catullus; Martial; Thomas Campion; Neo-Latin literature.

 

Rosa Rita Marchese, Il dilemma tra amore e onore. Reciprocità e modelli etici in Catullo 76 e in Properzio (Elegie 2,23; 2,24a-b-c), pp. 1701-1725

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Poem 76 is probably the most significant text, among Catullan compositions, for investigating the issues of reciprocity-in-love and honour, which dispose the poet’s world. This paper aims to focus the debate between benefacta and gratia, in comparison with some Propertian elegies that seem to propose very different solutions to the same ethical dispute, whether honour is better than love, or not. Keywords: honour; reciprocity-in-love; ethical models.

 

Giulio Massimilla, Il dolore delle chiome sorelle da Callimaco a Catullo, pp. 1727-1732

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This paper compares line 51 of Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice (fr. 213 M. = 110 Pf./H.) with its translation by Catullus in lines 51 f. of Poem 66. Catullus’ choice of a female narrative voice leads him to change the allusive background of the Greek line. He outlines a new image, which is consistent with some prominent features of both Callimachus’ poem and his own poetic output. Keywords: Callimachus; Catullus; Lock of Berenice; ancient literary tradition.

 

Alessandra Minarini, Catullo, Flavio e le deliciae inlepidae: il carme 6 del liber, pp. 1733-1743

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In Catullus’ c. 6 the poet addresses Flavius, a friend who is in love with an inlepida puella. A stylistic and linguistic study of the poem shows how, under a seemingly friendly manner, Catullus hides an ironic, perhaps sarcastic mode, while the feminine character could be even Lesbia. Keywords: Catullus; addressees; classical philology; textual criticism.

 

Melanie Möller, Intensität. Beobachtungen zu Catulls Nachleben in der Moderne, pp. 1745-1769

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Catullus is considered the most modern of Roman poets. But how is this “modernity” expressed in his poems? Is it their specific formal aesthetics? Their internal and external fragmentation? Their subversive eroticism and obscenity? After setting the framework of Catullus’ “modernity”, I give a brief outline of programmatic points in the history of Catullus’ reception while expanding my textual analysis on five more recent, symptomatic examples (Pound, Brodsky, Królow, Carson, and Balmer). The question is whether Catullus’ reception history can be used to overcome the paradigm of Antiquity and Modernity, insofar as it contains “modern” readings that do not try to level out the differences which are necessarily there. In view of these findings, which consequences can be drawn for the status quo of Latin poetry? Keywords: Aesthetics; Consolation; Modernity; Fragment.

Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Silentium amoris: el silencio como motivo amatorio desde Catulo a la poesía latina tardía. Un addendum al Diccionario de Motivos Amatorios en la Literatura Latina, pp. 1771-1792

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This paper is conceived as an addendum to the Diccionario de Motivos Amatorios en la Literatura Latina (ss. III a.C.-II d.C.) and it surveys the motif of silence in Latin love poetry from Catullus to Late Antiquity. On the one hand, it analyses silence as an “absence of noise” in different contexts: night silence, silence in nature, silence and solitude, and the contrast between external quiet and the lover’s internal turmoil. On the other hand, it explores the different literary usages of silence as an “absence of speech”: it can be a symptom of love, a strategy of seduction or a sign of indifference, lack of passion, self-control or oblivion; silence can also be the result of unspeakable feelings, shame, grief or fear; victims and witnesses of sex abuse are silenced because they are traumatised, mutilated or metamorphosed. Finally, the relationship between silence, bragging and sex is also investigated in humorous contexts. Keywords: Silence in literature; love motifs; silentium; silencing; speech loss; speechlessness.

 

Gianfranco Nuzzo, Un esempio di arte allusiva in Catullo, pp. 1793-1801

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Two poems of Catullian Liber (V and VII) contain allusions to Callimachus, particularly to proem of Aitia: senes severiores and mala lingua must be compared with envious Telchines. Keywords: kisses; backbiter; evil eye; Telchines.

 

Antonio Piras, Reminiscenze catulliane negli epigrammi di Michele Marullo, pp. 1803-1830

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This essay examines the reminiscences of Catullus’ poems in the epigrams of the humanist Michael Marullus. The influences of Catullian style can be observed at different speech levels and regard vocabulary, particular iuncturae and complex structural frames. However, the language of Marullus doesn’t appear to be a mechanical collage of Catullian elements, but it has a homogeneous character with the mark of his forceful personality. Keywords: Catullus; Michael Marullus; Renaissance Humanism; Latin Epigram.

 

Timothy J. Robinson, Adaptations of the Sapphic Strophe by Catullus and Horace, pp. 1831-1851

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Catullus and possibly other unknown Latin poets assimilated a long tradition, extending back to Sappho and Alcaeus, of Aeolic meters in compact, repeated, four-line stanzas, which rescaled and refocused lyric expression, as examined here in Sappho Α.31, and Δ.58, Catullus Carm. 11 and 51, and Horace Carm. 1,22. Keywords: Sappho; Catullus; Horace; strophe.

 

Sandra Romano Martín, Meros amores (Cat. 13,9), pp. 1853-1869

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Although it foregrounds sexual violence in its opening and closing lines, Catullus’s poem 16 is fundamentally a poem about how to read poetry. Specifically, it rejects the autobiographical fallacy and implies that readers who practice it are the literary equivalent of pathici and cinaedi. Keywords: Poetics; masculinity; invective; autobiographical fallacy.

Robert Sklenář, Poetic autobiography and literary polemic in Catullus 16, pp. 1871-1876

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Although it foregrounds sexual violence in its opening and closing lines, Catullus’s poem 16 is fundamentally a poem about how to read poetry. Specifically, it rejects the autobiographical fallacy and implies that readers who practice it are the literary equivalent of pathici and cinaedi. Keywords: Poetics; masculinity; invective; autobiographical fallacy.

Alden Smith, Cocktail Wit and Self-Deprecation in Catullus 9 and 10, pp. 1877-1894

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This contribution focuses on Catullus 9 and 10, in which poems one finds examples of urbane discourse in an otiose, “cocktail party-like” setting. When Catullus creates such a situation in Carm. 9 and 10, as he does elsewhere he describes a self-deprecating venue in which his poetic persona comes off less than “urbane.” Such playful self-effacement and light-hearted criticism of his colleagues allows Catullus to brushstroke lightly topics such as politics or literary criticism. While, on the one hand, self-deprecation affords him the opportunity to forge an oblique recusatio of urbanitas, on the other hand it reveals the poet’s sophistication, even if he denies his poetic persona such urbanitas. Keywords: otium; urbanitas; poetic composition; scortillum; sexual politics.

 

Ábel Tamás, Forgetting, writing, painting: Aegeus as “the father of letters” in Catullus 64, pp. 1895-1913

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In this paper, I address the possible relation of the “Aegeus scene” in Catullus 64 to the ancient discourse of writing and memory. In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates associates writing with forgetfulness, embeds it in a father-son allegory, and compares it to a type of silent painting. These elements, as I argue, return in the Athenian scene of Catullus’ miniature epic, suggesting that Theseus’ “forgetting” is not independent of Aegeus’ “writing” and “painting” activity. Keywords: Catullus; Aegeus; writing; memory.

 

W. Jeffrey Tatum, Catullus in New Zealand Poetry: Baxter, Stead, and Jackson read Catullus, Poem 11, pp. 1915-1937

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This paper examines the Catullan adaptations of three New Zealand poets, James Baxter, Karl Stead, and Anna Jackson. Each composed one or more sequences in imitation or emulation of Catullus. These are discussed here principally by way of a focus on their responses to the imagery of Catull. 11. Keywords: Catullus; reception; English poetry; Latin poetry; Sappho; Mimnermus.