Catullus 63 in a Roman Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20059272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruurd Nauta (corresponding author), Ruurd R Nauta |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 87-119 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Catullus' Poem on Attis (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047414469_007 |
| OpenAlex | W4245900182 |
| ISBN | 9789047414469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this paper,1) Catullus’ intentions in writing the Attis poem and his possible use of a Greek model are deliberately left out of account. Instead, the focus is on the meaning his poem may have had for his contemporary audience. Attis is a gallus, a castrated devotee of the Mater Magna, and thus a reconstruction is attempted of the mental picture that Romans of Catullus’ time had of galli. Special importance is given to Lucretius’ excursus on the Mater Magna, and his interpretation of castration as a punishment for lack of pietas. Finally, a slightly later source, Vergil’s Aeneid, is used to suggest that Catullus’ poem may also have been read as participating in a discourse about Roman national identity
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |