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Catullus 63, the poem on Attis’ self-castration, regret, and final subjection to the goddess Cybele, has been called ‘the most remarkable poetical creation in the Latin language’. Scholarly debate has focused on the poem’s relationship to the myths and cults of Attis and Cybele, its dependence on Hellenistic models, its meanings for a Roman audience, and its unusual language and metre. In the present volume these questions are being addressed by a team of specialists in religious history, Hellenistic poetry, Roman poetry and culture, and Latin linguistics. The volume not only sheds much new light on a fascinating poem, it also demonstrates how the various disciplines of Classics may cooperate towards a better understanding of ancient culture. The contents of this volume also appear in Mnemosyne, 57,5. (2004), as a special issue on Catullus.
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In these new verse translations, Martin makes newly accessible the work of one of ancient Rome's most widely read poets who wrote about the life and language of the people in the streets. (Poetry)
This study of Catullus' Poem of Attis examines the peculiar rites belonging to the mysteries of Cybele and Attis and concentrates on the initiation of the Attispriest. Hardly any other religious rites seems so unfathomable to ordinary human behaviour than the self-castration of the priesthood associated to the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis. This rise coincides with the myths, where Attis seized by frenzy, castrates himself. The motif was popular in Classical Antiquity and the most detailed and elaborated depiction is Catullus' Carmen LXIII, the Poem of Attis. Catullus here describes a vivid realization of an ecstatic religion from an empathic and penetrating psychological viewpoint. behaviour of the Attispriests, which reflect certain implications of a special religious concept, apparent and comprehensible for the passionate devotee. Catullus' Poem of Attis has the ambition to uncover the intention of the rite and the position of liminality which obviously were concerned with the way to salvation. This way was for the Attispriests to unman their bodies from the utter abhorrence of love.
The great merit of this textbook resides in its sensitivity to the problems of the intermediate student, for whom Catullus will represent a first exposure to 'real Latin.'...Overall, this is a very responsible textbook....
Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belonged to a group of young poets who embraced Hellenistic forms to forge a new literary style, the so-called 'neoterics'. This comprehensive edition includes the complete, unabridged and unbowdlerised poems and is the definitive student edition of Catullus' work. The extensive introduction covers topics including the role of Catullus' literary paramour Lesbia, the few biographical certainties known about Catullus' life and other figures from the contemporary political scene. In addition to this, there is a brief overview of the poems' textual history, discussion of Catullus' style across the collection and linguistic discussions of morphology, vocabulary, syntax and metre. The commentary notes include individual introductions and bibliographies to each poem, as well as line by line notes which translate difficult phrases and gloss obscure words. In addition to this, more detailed explanations of poetic, structural and contextual points are also provided.