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The Complete Poetry of Catullus Catullus Translated and with commentary by David Mulroy Wisconsin Studies in Classics William Aylward, Nicholas D. Cahill, and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, General Editors A wild young poet in Julius Caesar's Rome Catullus' life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar's Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul's wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus. David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroy's lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar. David Mulroy, associate professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, has published two other translated collections, Early Greek Lyric Poetry and Horace's Odes and Epodes. He has performed his translations of Catullus' poems at poetry slams in Milwaukee bars to enthusiastic response. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu Of related interest: Oedipus Rex Sophocles A verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes Oedipus Rex A Dramatized Audiobook Sophocles A verse translation by David Mulroy Spoken 2-CD set performed by actors of the American Players Theatre and faculty and students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music

July 2002 LC: 2001005832 PA 160 pp.   6 x 9 Paper $19.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-17774-4 eBook $9.99 s ISBN 978-0-299-17773-7 ADD TO CART   Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature. (Cloth is now out of print, but  paperback is available.) "Mulroy's is a marvelous contribution to Catullus translations and studies. Catullus' angry or comic (sometimes both) poems directed at the movers and shakers of his era are rendered here with wit and Roman realism, and the famous love poems to Lesbia are charming and immediate." —Kelly Cherry, author of Rising Venus: Poems

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