A parallel page Latin text and English translation of Catullus' poems, with introduction, notes and a glossary.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BCE) was born at Verona into a wealthy family. Part of the 'new wave' of Latin poets at Rome whose reputation for epigrams and making love to married women was accompanied by an intense interest in the Alexandrian school, Catullus remains today, with 116 extant poems, one of the world's greatest lyric poets. James Michie, born in 1927, was educated at Marlborough College, and Trinity College, Oxford, at which he was a classical scholar. His previous books include Possible Laughter and a translation of The Odes of Horace.
Much the best translation in English
*Rex Warner*
Catullus is fiendishly hard to translate. To bring him alive needs
stringent discipline and love of the work: here they are ... 'Ave'
I say to Catullus and his brilliant translator. There will be no
'vale' to this book for a very long time.
*Patrick Dickinson*
... a performance of immense lucidity and pace, following the sense
of the original with unerring accuracy and discernment. He catches
the dirty rancour of the shorter pieces as finely as the formal
splendours of the longer narratives.
*Alan Brownjohn*
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