General Index
A
Achilles, 162 , 163 , 165 , 166
Acme, 183
actors, Roman status of, 57
Adler, Eve, 22 -23
Aeneas, 218
aesthetic, 1 -2, 34 , 35 , 38 , 43 , 44 , 55 , 229
and lyric, 15 -16
"After Catullus" (Turnbull), 233
aggression, language of, 69
Alexandria, 18 , 186 , 200 , 205 , 206 , 207 , 210
Alexandrianism. See Catullus, Alexandrianism of
Alfenus, 234
Allinson, A.C.E., 216 -18
Alpers, Svetlana, 238
Amphitrite, 151
Antony, 62
Aphrodite, 79
Appius, 130 -31
Argei, ritual of, 204
Ariadne:
in Boscotrecase Panels, 144 -45, 153 -54, 155
as Diva, 156 -58
as figure for betrayed Catullus, 147
as figure for poetic power and impotence, 155
as figure for reader, 155
as figure for Roman cultural belatedness, 170
as gazer, 149 , 153 , 154 , 161 , 162
lament of, 156 -58
and myth, 155
as spectacle, 146 , 147 -48, 149
aristocratic obligation, language of, 17 , 115 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 128 , 130 -32, 134
Asinius Gallus, 44 -45
Asinius Marrucinus, 94 -97, 100 , 101 , 102
Atticus, 26
Attis, 222
Auden, W.H., 15
Augustus, 62
Aurelius, 46 , 47 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 53 , 55 , 170 , 172 , 181 -82, 183 , 214 , 230
and irrumatio , 65 -66
Ausonius, 76
construction of Catullus as Roman, 19 -21
position of, 13
and relation to work, 29 -31
role of, 212
B
Bacchus, 157
Battus, 55
and misogyny, 224
Beardsley, Aubrey, 216 -17, 226
belatedness, 142 , 160 , 167 , 170
birth metaphor, 192 , 194 , 195
of Ariadne, 149
book, 39 -42
Boscotrecase Panels, and spectatorship, 146 , 147 -48
Bramble, J.C., 143
breasts, in Song of Fates, 165
Britain, 175
Bryson, Norman, 167
Buechner, Karl, 125
C
Caelius Rufus, 10 , 21 -22, 26 , 75 , 76 , 130 -31, 132 , 234
as character in Baxter, 223
as character in Jaro, 217 , 221 -22
Caesar (Julius), 9 , 62 , 84 -85, 115 , 120 , 181 , 204
as character in Wilder, 218 -21, 225
Callimachus, 47 -49, 54 , 55 , 186 , 189 , 191 , 193 , 195 -96, 197 -98, 199 , 202
Callistratus, 71
Calvus, Licinius, 6 , 45 , 46 , 62 , 112
Campesani, Benvenuto, 240
Cato (Marcus Porcius), 62 , 77 , 78
Catullan Self-Revelation (Adler), 22 -23
Catullus:
Alexandrianism of, 41 , 44 , 95 -96, 142 , 143 , 185 , 186 , 189 , 197 , 199 , 201
and bacchic mysticism, 125 -26
brother of, 18 , 185 -86, 187 -89, 194 , 195 , 201 , 208 , 209 , 210 -11, 215 , 216 , 217 -18, 218 , 225 , 237
as canonical author, 11 -12, 19 -21, 26 -27, 30 -31, 44 , 115
as character in Lindsay, 231 -33
as character in Wilder, 218 , 219 -21
as character in Wright, 228
and Christianity, 24 , 125 -26, 231 -32
cultural displacement of, 9 -10, 18
early reception of, 24 -26, 44 -45
echoed in Baxter, 223
editorial traditions of, 43 -44
as emblem of self-divided Roman poet, 20
and ethic of slightness, 14 -15
and fallen flower image, 179 , 180 , 227
father of, 221
and Golden Age, 17 , 140 , 141 , 142 , 143 , 146 , 148 -51, 149 -50, 152 , 156 , 160 -61, 162 , 166 -67
and Greek literature, 199 , 202
Havelock's biographical account of, 246 -47n32
and "I hate and I love" motif, 20 , 23
and innumerability topos, 54
as irrumator , 71 -72
manuscripts of, 24 -25
and mastery of poetic discourse, 179
modern reception of, 41 , 44 , 106 -7, 110 , 118 , 119 -20, 122 -23 125 -27, 142 -44, 146 -48
and myth, 144 , 146 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 159
New Critical reception of, 106 -7
obscenity in, 16
and order of poems, 24 -25, 28 -29, 33 , 35 , 43 -44, 78 , 79 , 80 , 280 n1
parodies of, 105 -6
and physical book, 39 -42
provocations of, 13 -14, 16 , 34 -35, 36 -44
reception of, 13 , 14 -15, 23 -25
relation to reader, 13 , 17 , 34 -35, 37 -44, 46 , 120 -21, 125 , 126 -27
Renaissance reception of, 73 -75
resistance to translation, 229 -30
and 'reverse theft,' 101 -2, 103 -4
as "Rilke of antiquity," 212
in Roman canon, 20 -21
and Roman imperialism, 20
and scholarly tradition, 14 -15
The Sparrow , 28 -29
translations by, 195 -96
translations of, 60 , 61 , 216 , 227 -28, 229 -34
as Transpadane, 9 -10, 18 , 185 , 186 , 200 -201, 202 , 203 -4, 205 -6
and triangulated readership, 13
use of diminutives, 102
use of invective, 100 -101
values of, 29
and Vergil, 197
as victim, 17 -18, 23 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 72 , 169 -70, 184 , 189
Victorian reception of, 32 , 59 -60, 224
as wronged lover, 115 -16
Celan, Paul, 188
Christianity, 24 , 125 -26, 231 -32
Cicero, 6 , 10 , 19 , 20 , 25 -26, 45 , 63 , 64 , 119 , 125 -29, 130 -31, 132 , 133 , 134 , 175 -76
as first critic of Catullus 22
style of, 128 -29
Cinna (Gaius), 9
Clodia, 21 -22, 64 , 130 , 221
as character in Lindsay, 231
as character in Wilder, 218 -21
Clodius, 21
Commager, Steele, 119 -20
confessionalism, and Catullan scholar, 212
Conon, 196
convicium , 62
Copley, Frank, 23 , 106 -8, 116 , 117
Cornelius Nepos, 35 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 47 , 51 , 52
Cornificius, 213
criticism, as performance of the text, 242 n10
Croce, Benedetto, 122 -23
Culler, Jonathan, 3
Cycnus, 205
D
dedication poem, 34 -35, 38 -39
delicatus/delicati , 36 , 37 , 45 -46, 51 , 53 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 250 n7
deliciae , 35 -36, 37 , 44 , 52 , 54 , 268 n52
de Man, Paul, 5 , 212 , 215 , 229
dicacitas , 62
Dido, 218
diminutives, Catullan use of, 102
displacement, 185 , 186 , 188 , 196 , 200 , 207 , 210
E
Ecnomus, 74
editorial traditions, 43 -44
See also Catallus, order of poems
effeminacy, 43 , 46 , 49 , 51 , 53
of book, 41
ekphrasis, 140
elegy, 26 , 114 , 117 , 118 , 121 , 135
Roman semiotic game of, 8 -9
and sincerity, 7 -8
Eliot, T. S., 119
elite, Roman, 8 -9
epigrams, 47 -49, 117 -18, 119 , 120 , 123 , 136 , 137 -38
epithalamia, 180 -81
eroticism: and Roman imperialism, 177
versus obscenity, 59
ethics, dual standard of Roman, 8 -9
Europa, 159
exclusion, and urbanity, 87 , 90 , 95 -96, 100
F
as figure for reader, 267 n35
fallen flower image, 179 , 180 , 227
Fates, Song of the, 162 -65, 166 , 167
Fénelon, 59
Festus, 193
Fidentinus, 97
film theory, feminist, 147 -48
flagitatio , 62
Fordyce, C.J., 40 , 59 , 75 , 130
Foucault, Michel, 12 , 29 -31, 70 , 236
Frank, Tenney, 122
Freud, Sigmund, 174
Friedricksmeyer, Ernst, 12
Furius, 47 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 53 , 55 , 82 -84, 170 , 172 , 181 -82, 183 , 214 , 230
G
gaze, 140 , 145 , 146 , 148 , 149 , 152 , 153
overlay of, 161 -62
Gellius, 67 , 71 , 72 , 80 -81, 81 -82
Ginsberg, Allen, 213
in Jaro, 222
in Sisson, 232
Golden Age, 117 , 140 , 141 , 142 , 143 , 146 , 148 -51, 149 -50, 152 , 156 , 159 , 160 -61, 166 -67, 275 n15
Catullus' relation to, 17
soft versus hard, 275 n15
Granarolo, Jean, 125 , 126 , 127
Greek: literature, 142
and obscenity, 11
gremium , 193 , 196 , 198 , 199 , 200
Griffin, Jasper, 147
H
"hail and farewell" paradox, 213 , 214 , 215 , 237
happy family theme, 84 -85
Harpocrates, 67
Hollis, Christopher, 14
home. See domus
homosexuality, 30 , 31 -32, 45 -46, 49 -50, 82 , 85
Roman attitudes toward, 254 n31
See also irrumatio
homosociality, 181 -82, 183 , 214 -15, 216 , 284 n7
Horace, 10 , 19 , 20 , 40 , 109 -10, 155 , 159
humor, and obscenity, 61
I
"I hate and I love" paradox, 135 , 136 , 138 , 213 , 216 , 272 n42
imperialism, Roman, 20 , 42 , 142
and women, 169 , 170 , 173 , 174 , 175 -78, 180 -81
impure mouth, 10 -11, 63 , 64 , 73 , 74 , 80 , 81
innumerability topos, 54
invective, 85
Catullan use of, 100 -101
irrumatio , 11 , 64 -72, 177 , 259 -60n34
and Aurelius, 65 -66
derivation of, 65
and poetic agency, 63 , 66 -67
untranslatability of, 64 -65
Isidore of Seville, 24
isolation, of performing poet, 114 , 120 -21, 131 -32, 134 , 139
J
Janan, Micaela, 13
Jaro, Benita Kay, 24 , 221 -22
Jenkyns, Richard, 143 -44, 154 -55, 163
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (Freud), 174
K
Keats, John, 3 -4, 154 -55, 229
"The Fall of Hyperion," 3
Kerouac, Jack, 213
Klingner, Friedrich, 143
Konstan, David, 161
Kroll, Wilhelm, 30
Kyrnos, 47
L
Lahr, Bert, 51
Landor, Waiter Savage, 60 -61, 213
language: aesthetic, 35 -38
of aggression, 69
of aristocratic obligation, 17 , 115 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 128 , 130 -32, 134
neoteric, 117
of pleasure, 69
poet's isolation from, 114
See also obscenity
Leach, Eleanor, 144 -45
Lenz, Friedrich, 76
Lesbia, 75 -76, 78 , 79 , 90 -91, 103 -4, 134 -37, 138 , 169 , 172 , 173 , 179
in c. 67 , 207 , 208 , 209 , 210
Catullus' repudiation of, 221
as character in Jaro, 222
as character in Squire, 226 , 227
as character in Turnbull, 233
critical traditions regarding, 22
identification of historical, 21 -22
as Nemesis, 29
and obscenity, 61
relation to Catullan scholar, 12 -13, 22 , 76 , 77 , 127
and Roman imperialism, 180 -82, 183
sincerity of, 114 , 135 , 136 -37
Lesbia poems, 17 , 26 , 26 -29, 114 , 118 -27, 131 -32, 133 -39
critical reception of, 117
liminality in, 134
as 'novel,' 26 -29
liminality, 134
literary culture; Roman, 6 , 8 -9
lying, and poetry, 173 , 174 -76, 177 , 178 , 179 , 184
lyric: aesthetics of, 15 -16
Paul de Man on, 5
and position of poet, 5
and position of reader, 7
and process of provocation, 14
relational dynamics of, 100
and slightness, 14 -15
unconscious of, 237
and victimized speaker, 169
M
Macaulay, Thomas, 213
MacLeod, Colin, 31 -33
Marmorale, Enzo, 125
Martial, 19 , 20 , 50 -51, 70 -71, 75 , 97
theater analogies in, 61 -62
McAfee, Thomas, 125 , 213 , 234 -35, 236
Memmius (Gaius), 68 , 69 , 70 , 182 -83
Metelli family, 56
Metellus (Quintus), 21
Mill, John Stuart, 4
Minyard, John Douglas, 119
misogyny, 12 -13, 18 , 216 , 217
in Baxter, 224
of Catullan scholar, 12 -13
in Cotton, 215
mouth. See impure mouth
Muretus, 74
mysticism, Bacchic, 125 -26
myth, 142 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 159
and Verona, 205 -6
N
Naevius, 56
napkin, 94 -95, 96 -97, 98 , 100
New Criticism, 106
Nicomedes of Bithynia, 62
"novel" of Catullus, 28 -29
O
defined, 258 n21
derivation of, 62 -63
as figure for poetic discourse, 81
Greek, 11
and humor, 61
and Lesbia, 61
as perverse cleanliness, 84
and poet/reader relationship, 63 -64, 79
reception of, 59 -61
and relation to reader, 79
in Roman culture, 10 -11, 61 -62, 63 , 64 , 86
in Sisson, 232
in translation, 60
and urbanity, 10
versus eroticism, 59
Ocean, 181
Oceanus, 81
Odysseus, 145 , 146 , 187 , 188 -89, 199
Ortalus, 189 , 191 , 192 , 195 , 200
Orton, Joe, 51
Ovid, 9 , 10 , 19 , 20 , 30 , 128
P
painting: Campanian, 168
Pompeiian, 147
See also Boscotrecase Panels
parasiti , 6
parodies, 105 -6
patronus , 6
Peleus, 153
Penelope, 199
performance: and isolation of poet, 114 , 128
oral versus written, 6
Philodemus, 25
Piso (Lucius Calpurnius), 25 , 68
pleasure, 86
language of, 69
Pliny the Younger, 25 , 44 -46
and obscene verse, 63
poet: position of, 178 -79, 184
as scurra , 7
poetic mind, metaphors for, 192 -93, 194
poetic production, birth metaphor for, 192 , 194 , 195
poetry: confessional, 5
and lying, 173 , 174 -76, 177 , 178 , 179 , 184
overheard, 4 -5
and societal self-definition, 100
as talk, 10
Poliziano, Angelo, 25 , 73 -75
polymetrics, 26 , 28 , 116 -17, 121 , 129
position: of Catullan scholar, 12 , 14 , 16 , 19 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 64 , 70 , 73 , 75 , 79 , 143
of poet, 17 , 18 , 21 , 34 , 37 , 86 , 104 -5, 114 , 120 -22, 137 , 138 , 194 , 195 , 199
and lyric, 5
of reader, 4 -5, 7 , 16 , 22 -23, 80 , 86 , 111 -13, 139 , 167 -68, 188 , 212 , 227 , 233
positionality, 16 , 55 , 72 , 86
aesthetic, 1 -4
erotic model of poetic, 59
power: poetic, 179 , 180 , 184
relations between poet and reader, 34 -35, 46 -47, 49 -51, 52
secondary, 17
and urbanitas , 16 -17
power relations: Roman, 51
in Roman comedy, 56 -58
private life, 25
Procne, 199
Propertius, 9
between Catullus and Calvus, 36 -38
between Catullus and Nepos, 38 -44
between Catullus and Pliny, 44 -46
between Catullus and reader, 34 -35, 36 , 37 -44
and lyric, 14
publication, anxiety of, 44 , 46 , 47 -48
pumice, 40 -41
puritanism, aesthetic, 143 -44
Q
Quinn, Kenneth, 4 , 6 , 15 , 30 , 112 , 151 , 222
R
reader: position in Squire, 227
in Turnbull, 233
reception: of obscenity, 59 -61
See also Catullus, relation to reader
representation: of Golden Age, 149
ideology of, 167
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 212 , 215 , 229
Roman: canon, 19
concern with impure mouth, 63
concern with obscenity, 10 -11, 61 -62, 63
cultural schizophrenia, 9
culture, 236 -37
elite, 8 -9
ethics, 8 -9
Hellenism, 256 n44
imperialism, 20 , 42 , 142 , 164 , 170 , 173 , 174 , 175 -78, 180 -81
literary culture, 6
power relations, 51
relation to Greek culture, 197
socio-political milieu, 114
Romanticism, 23
Rome, 186 , 188 , 189 , 201 , 202 , 203 , 232 , 236
Rubino, Carl, 118
rusticitas , versus urbanitas , 9
S
Schefold, Karl, 144
Schmidt, Ernst, 118
scholar, Catullan: and confessionalism, 212
and relation to betrayed lover, 115 , 118 , 122 -23
and relation to Lesbia, 12 -13, 22 , 76 , 77 , 127
Selden, Daniel, 13
self-division, of poet, 20
Serapis, cult of, 178
severance, 179 -83, 184 , 189 , 200
sexual stimulation, role of, 55
Shakespeare, William, 228 , 229
Silverman, Kaja, 147 -48, 274 n13
sincerity, 7 -8, 189 , 196 , 197 , 198 -99, 210
of Roman elegy, 7 -8
Sisson, C.H., 230 -33
Skinner, Marilyn, 11 -12, 13 , 95 , 96 , 118 , 278 n4
slave/playwright analogy, 57 -58
slightness, ethic of, 14 -15, 16
Sophocles, 220
Sotades, 200
as phallic symbol, 252 -53n24
spectatorship, 147 , 159 , 160 , 161
speech; nature of poetic, 18
imitation of flower image, 227
stepmother figure, 83
Swinburne, Charles Algernon, 213 , 215 -16, 227
T
Tacitus, 10
Tethys, 81
Thetis, 153
Tibullus, 9
Tompkins, Jane, 7
translation, 194
by Catullus, 195 -96, 197 -98, 199 , 202
displacement and, 196
as expressa , 191
See also Catullus, translations of; Catullus, translations by
triangulation, 13 , 18 , 191 , 216
involving women, 170
triviality. See delicatus/deliciae
Troy, 186 , 187 , 188 , 202 , 209 , 211 , 218
Turnbull, Gael, 233
Tyrell, Robert, 122
U
Catullan agressive use of, 87 , 88 , 91 -92, 93 -96, 97 -100, 102
Horatian characterization of, 109 , 110
instability of meaning, 90 , 91
poet as arbiter of, 93 -94, 95 , 96
and power, 16 -17
undefinability of, 88 -89, 90 , 91 , 100
and Verona, 204
versus rusticitas , 9 , 98 , 91
See also urbanity
as aestheticized morality, 88 , 89
and exclusion, 87 , 90 , 95 -96, 100
and obscenity, 10
as poetic performative game, 11
See also urbanitas
V
Valerius, 217
Varus, 176
Vectios Philocomus, 74
Vergil, 19 , 20 -21, 14 , 197 , 218
Vermeer, Jan, 238 -39
Verona, 186 , 201 , 202 , 205 , 207 , 208 , 211 , 240
and myth, 206
and urbanitas , 204
Veyne, Paul, 7 -8, 9 , 62 , 70 , 86 , 123
Roman Erotic Elegy , 7
viewer, castrated, 148
virtuosity, 151
vision, theory of, 161
W
Weinrich, Otto, 76
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich, 105 , 107
Wilder, Thornton, 218 -21, 225
Williams, William Carlos, 2 -3, 4 , 10 , 113 , 239 , 240
"This Is Just to Say," 2 -3, 4 , 10 , 113 , 239 , 240
Wiseman, T.P., 32 -33, 147 , 203 , 203 , 205 -6
womb, poetic mind as, 192 -93
as alibi for creative genius, 225
in Allinson, 217
Catullus as victim of, 17 -18
and imperialism, 169 , 170 , 173 , 174 , 175 , 176 -78, 180 -81
as medium of intermale communication, 216
status of, 177 -79
X
xenia , 168
Y
Yeats, William Butler, 12 , 25