Table of Contents

Part I: 1. Who was Lesbia?; 2. How many books?; 3. Where was the audience?; 4. What were the long poems?; Part II: 5. How Gallic were the Transpadanes?; 6. Why is Ariadne naked?; 7. Clodia: some imaginary lives.

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Combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus' life and work.

About the Author

T. P. Wiseman is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. He has been a leading scholar of the political and social history of republican Rome for more than half a century and has a particular interest in social historical approaches to Catullus. His books include Catullan Questions (1969) and Catullus and His World (Cambridge, 1985).