Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet - Couverture rigide

Dunn, Daisy

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ISBN 10 : 0007554338 ISBN 13 : 9780007554331

Editeur : William Collins, 2016

Synopsis

A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man’s wife and made it known to the world through his verse.

This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Rome’s greatest writers.

Living through the debauchery, decadence and spectacle of the crumbling Roman Republic, Catullus remains famous for the sharp, immediate poetry with which he skewered Rome’s sparring titans – Pompey, Crassus and his father’s friend, Julius Caesar. But it was for his erotic, scandalous but often tender love elegies that he became best known, inspired above all by his own lasting affair with a married woman whom he immortalised in his verse as ‘Lesbia’. A monumental figure for poets from Ovid and Virgil onwards, his journey across youth and experience, from Verona to Rome, Bithynia to Lake Garda, is traced in Daisy Dunn’s brilliant portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Daisy Dunn was born in London in 1987 and read Classics at the University of Oxford, before winning a scholarship to the Courtauld and completing a doctorate in Classics and History of Art at University College London. She writes and reviews for many publications, including The Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, and Standpoint, and is editor of Argo, a Greek culture magazine. She was longlisted for the 2015 Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Collins
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007554338
• ISBN 13: 9780007554331
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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