Table of Contents

Preface

Timeline of events and authors mentioned

1. The writer's world
2. The poet at work
3. The life of love
4. Doctus poeta - the uses of learning
5. Obscenity and humour
6. First and last things

Notes

Further Reading

Index of Passages

Index of Catullus Poems

General Index

About the Author

John Godwin was for many years Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School, UK. His many publications include Juvenal: Satires Books III, IV and V (Aris & Phillips 2022, 2016 and 2020); Horace: Selected Satires (Bloomsbury 2018), Ovid: Metamorphoses III: A Selection (Bloomsbury 2013) and editions of Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Books IV and VI and the complete works of Catullus for the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.

Reviews

A very sensible and far-reaching introduction to Catullus [...] There is plenty in this book for a sixth-former to appreciate and be entertained by, and it would make a splendid companion to a Catullus prescription.