Catullus's Ameana Cycle as Literary Criticism.
This paper will reevaluate Catullus's venom in poems 41 and 43 (the so-called 'Ameana Cycle') to show that his attacks on Ameana are in fact veiled criticisms of Mamurra's loathsome poetry. Catullus's descriptions of Ameana substantiate this reading: her physical features are disproportionate and il...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 262 - 276 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2016
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