Journeys and Nostalgia in Catullus

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ID9307692
AuthorsRebecca Armstrong (0000-0003-4146-7427, corresponding author), REBECCA ARMSTRONG REBECCA ARMSTRONG
Year2013
Volume109
Issue1
Pages43-43
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Classical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-8353 • E-ISSN: 2327-5812
PublisherClassical Association of the Middle West and South (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5184/classicalj.109.1.0043
OpenAlexW2307364151
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

This article explores the themes of travel, homecoming and homesickness in Catullus' poetry. A recurrent interest throughout much of the poet's oeuvre, the idea of the journey offers the reader multiple angles of interpretation: from the emotional to the metapoetic, and from contemporary social contexts to far-off mythical ones, all along the way contributing to the complex presentation of the poet himself. Ultimately, the reader is left with a paradoxical picture of Catullus as both a wanderer and a stay-at-home, both an achiever of nostos and a victim of incurable nostalgia

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Homecoming · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Presentation (obstetrics · Reflexive pronoun · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy

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