Ancient Literacies
cannot come to plead his cause himself. Ultimately, the destiny that Augustus allots to it will ensure (or not) the safety of it ...
aspicies illic positos ex ordine fratres, quos studium cunctos euigilauit idem. cetera turba palam titulos ostendet apertos, et ...
But their poetic form is justified by a second fictive utterance: they are songs of mourning. Ovid is the new Orpheus sent on a ...
sed neque cui recitem quisquam est mea carmina, nec qui auribus accipiat verba Latina suis. ipse mihi quid enim faciam? scriboqu ...
can tear down, not even the innumerable succession of years and the flight of time.) The beginning of this text is strange to sa ...
Sume superbiam quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica lauro cinge uolens, Melpomene, comam. (Take the pride you have so richly earne ...
Nicolet, Claude. 1994. ‘‘Ala recherche des archives oublie ́es: une contribution a l’histoire de la bureaucratie romaine.’’ InLa ...
8 The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets Joseph Farrell To us, who have lived our entire lives in a culture satu ...
he has had copied into this volume might possibly outlive its author (carm. 1), and he elsewhere imagines future generations rea ...
as a writer instead of a singer.^4 If we turn to Rome, we might expect these attitudes to continue, especially during the first ...
well as by more deliberately controlled factors such as themise en page.But even in a world before printing existed but long aft ...
something of a paradox: the more thelibelluswas read, the shabbier the beginning of the roll will have looked, even though the f ...
only being realistic: as a self-conscious exponent of novelty in literature, Catullus may have understood that he would be fortu ...
again, we are talking about alibellus: the image introduced byperuoluent (6) requires that we think of an actual object, a scrol ...
puto esse ego illi milia aut decem aut plura perscripta, nec sic ut fit in palimpsesto relata: cartae regiae, noui libri, noui u ...
Suffenus? I think there is little question but that this is so. If we look among Catullus’s poems for a correlative to Suffenus’ ...
aspect of Catullus’s anxiety over his books’ fate, one that is prior to any concerns he may have about the reception of the fini ...
There is, however, a larger point. The theft of Catullus’s notebooks stands for the inevitable moment that every author eventual ...
Catullus selects a dedicatee who might be seen as worthy of the poet in various ways—as a fellowtranspadanus, as a learned write ...
forever sing songs of mourning like the nightingale, mourning the death of Itys. This is a poem that requires a closer look. Ets ...
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