Two Poems of Catullus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9369604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eduard Fraenkel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 46-53 |
| Publication date | 1961-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Roman Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0075-4358 • E-ISSN: 1753-528X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/298835 |
| OpenAlex | W2323317573 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The poem begins with a passionate cry. ‘To my aid, little poems, every one, all of you from everywhere, every single one of you, all!’ When Catullus says adeste, hendecasyllabi , he is not of course summoning representatives of one metrical genre only. Since by far the greater part of those short poems which now make up the first section of his book (I–LX) has as its metre the hendecasyllable ( phalaeceus ), he can readily use this name for his short poems in general without excluding an occasional iambic or choliambic piece. Catullus has to summon his poems undique , for they are scattered over a wide area, which proves, if proof were needed, that, like other poets in antiquity, he was in the habit of sending first, before publication, individual poems to individual addressees
Art · Iambic pentameter · Literature · Metre · Poetry · Section (typography · Tone (literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2017 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |