Rhetoric, wit and humour in Catullus 44

• Authors: Klęczar Aleksandra
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses Catullus’s c. 44, a witty and ironic poem on the frigidity of the rhetorical style of a certain Sestius’. The aim of the analysis is to point at the relationship between c. 44 and other Catullan poems concerning the themes of friendship/companionship and literature. Comic elements, especially in the presentation of Catullus’ parasitus-like behaviour, will also be taken into account.

Keywords

EN

Catullus; parody; pastiche; rhetoric; Roman comedy; frigus

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Classica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 199-208

Contributors

author

Klęczar Aleksandra

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

References

• Baker R. J., 1983, ‘Catullus and Sirmio’, Mnemosyne 36/3-4, pp. 316-323.
• Dang K., 2010, ‘Rome and the Sabine “Farm”: Aestheticism, topography and the landscape of production’, Phoenix 64/1-2, pp. 102-127.
• De Angeli E. S., 1969, ‘A literary chill: Catullus 44’, The Classical World 62/9, pp. 354-356.
• Duckworth G. E., 1952, Nature of Roman comedy: A study in popular entertainment, Princeton.
• Fantuzzi M., Hunter R., 2004, Tradition and innovation in Hellenistic poetry, Cambridge.
• Fordyce, C. J., 1961, Catullus. A Commentary, Oxford.
• George D., 1991, ‘Catullus 44: The Vulnerability of Wanting to be Included’, American Journal of Philology 112, pp. 247-250.
• Gow A. S. F., Scholfield A. F. (eds.), 1953, Nicander. The Poems and Poetical Fragments, Cambridge.
• Gray V. J., 1986, ‘“Xenophon’s Hiero and the meeting of the wise man and tyrant in Greek literature’, The Classical Quarterly 36/1, pp. 115-123.
• Heusch H., 1954, Das Archaische in der Sprache Catullus, Bonn
• Jones C. P., 1968, ‘Parody in Catullus 44’, Hermes 96/3, pp. 379-383.
• Kavalali G. M. (ed.), 2003, Urtica: Therapeutic and nutritional aspects of stinging nettles, London.
• LeVen P. A., 2014, The many-headed Muse: Tradition and innovation in late classical Greek lyric poetry, Cambridge.
• McCaughey J., 1970, ‘The mind lays by its trouble: Catullus 31’, Arion 9/4, pp. 362-365.
• Ronconi A., 1953, Studi Catulliani, Bari.
• Sandy G. N., 1978, ‘Indebtedness, “scurrilitas”, and composition in Catullus (Cat. 44, 1, 68)’, Phoenix 32/1, pp. 68-80.
• Stroup Culpepper S., 2010, Catullus, Cicero, and a society of patrons: The generation of the text, Cambridge–New York.
• Tylawsky E. I., 2002, Saturio’s inheritance: The Greek ancestry of the Roman comic parasite, New York.
• Vine B., 2009, ‘A Hipponactean Echo in Catullus (Frigus, 44.20)’, Classical Philology 104/2, pp. 213-216.
• Williams M. F., 1987/1988, ‘Amor’s head-cold (Frigus in Catullus 45)’, The Classical Journal 83/2, pp. 128-132.

Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/CC.18.2015.18.11