Writing Passion Writing Passion A Catullus Reader R A ONNIE NCONA Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. Wauconda, Illinois USA In-House Editor Laurie Haight Keenan Typography, Page and Cover Design Adam Phillip Velez Cartography Margaret W. Pearce Latin Text D. F. S. Thomson Catullus: Edited with a Textual and Interpretative Commentary University of Toronto Press 1997 Reprinted with permission of University of Toronto Press Cover illustration Pablo Picasso, Girl Reading at a Table, 1934. © 2004 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1995 (1996.403.1) Photograph © 1996 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Writing Passion A Catullus Reader by Ronnie Ancona © 2004 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. 1000 Brown Street Wauconda, IL 60084 USA www.bolchazy.com Printed in the United States of America 2006 by United Graphics ISBN-13: 978-0-86516-482-6 ISBN-10: 0-86516-482-7 ——————————————————————————————————————————— Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Writing passion : a Catullus reader / Ronnie Ancona. p. cm. “Intended for use by students at the intermediate college level or the advanced high school level. The selections from Catullus are the required readings in Catullus for the Advanced Placement Latin Literature Examination given by the Educational Testing Service”--Pref. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-86516-482-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Latin language--Readers. 2. Elegiac poetry, Latin. 3. Love poetry, Latin. 4. Epigrams, Latin. 5. Rome--Poetry. I. Ancona, Ronnie, 1951- II. Title. PA6274.A25 2004 874’.01--dc22 2004008331 This book is dedicated to three of my foreign language mentors: Helena Percas de Ponseti, Spanish professor at Grinnell College, who, when she shared a copy of an article she had just published on Cervantes, fi rst revealed to me that teachers do scholarship Roslyn Grant, friend, colleague, and Department Head at The Bush School, Seatt le, Washington, who probably taught me in my very fi rst Latin teaching job more about foreign language teaching, despite the fact that she taught Spanish and French, not Latin, than I have learned from anyone else since Charles Babcock, professor and dissertation adviser at Ohio State University, now friend, who consistently encouraged my interest in becoming both a Latin scholar and a Latin teacher Contents Preface ...................................................................................................................................ix Introduction ......................................................................................................................xv Bibliography .....................................................................................................................xix Latin Text with Notes and Vocabulary ..................................................................3 Meters of the Poems ....................................................................................................163 Metrical Terms, Tropes or Figures of Thought, and Rhetorical Figures or Figures of Speech .........................................169 Latin Text without Notes or Vocabulary ..........................................................173 Vocabulary .......................................................................................................................221 vii Maps and Illustrations General Reference Map ..................................................................................................2 Girl with Pigeons ...............................................................................................................6 Map for Poem 4 ................................................................................................................14 Silver Coin of Cyrene ....................................................................................................23 Map for Poem 11 ..............................................................................................................34 Map for Poem 36 ..............................................................................................................71 Preface I would like to thank Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers for inviting me to write a text on an author I have been reading and thinking about since I fi rst encountered him in an undergraduate Latin Lyric Poetry class at the University of Washington taught by Professor William Grum- mel. Shortly thereaft er I taught some Catullus at The Bush School in Seatt le, Washington. In graduate school at Ohio State University I spent many hours talking about Catullus with my fellow graduate student and friend, Caroline Perkins, and studied him with Professor John Da- vis. I quickly found in my extensive teaching experience there how ap- proachable Catullus could be for Latin students even at the elementary and intermediate levels of Latin. Since that time I have had the pleasure of teaching Catullus numerous times at the advanced undergraduate level at Hunter College, in the PhD program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and, as a College Board consultant, at Advanced Placement* Workshops for Latin Teachers. I would like to thank my students for their many good and challenging questions over the years. The opportunity to write this commentary was a welcome one to me. I had just completed a similar commentary on Horace and liked writing it, while I had recently moved towards scholarly work on Catullus, having all along been interested in his infl uence on Horace. I had been teaching and thinking about the poems for many years and the chance to explore them in the detailed manner of a commentator has allowed me to become even more familiar with both the poems and the recent work writt en about them. Since the approach I have taken in this text is modeled on that of my Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 1999), I would like to thank those who have given me feedback on that text for comments that have proved useful in writing its successor. * AP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.