Parodia
Catullus and the Res Publica Litterarum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23707013 |
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| Authors | Julia Haig Gaisser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Pages | 255-271 |
| Publication date | 1993-02-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Catullus and his Renaissance readers (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198148821.003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W4388370561 |
| ISBN | 9780198148821 |
| Language | EN |
The distinctive qualities of 4 inspired the only parody of a whole poem that survives from Antiquity, the 10th Catalepton.2No one knows the author of Cat al.10, but in the Renaissance he was most often identified with the young Vergil; and the Vergilian aura and authority prevailed in spite of the caution or protests of individual scholars. Vergil (as we shall call him) produced a parody so close to the original that the texts of the two poems have been used to correct each other.
Art · Art history · Literature · Poetry · The Renaissance · Classical Antiquity Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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