Browsing by Subject "Catullus"
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Multus Homo Es: Desire, Identity, and Conquest in Catullus' Carmina
(2016-08-26)The Roman poet Catullus has occupied a curious place in the hearts of scholars and lovers of literature alike. On the one hand, he writes some of the most violent and hateful poetry to have survived from the Ancient World, ... -
"To talk (why?) with mute ash": Models of mourning in Anne Carson's elegies
(2016-08-31)The model for human desire that classicist and poet Anne Carson lays out in Eros the Bittersweet also serves as a model for the state of mourning—a state in which her speakers exist in elegies “Appendix to Ordinary Time” ...