Catullus and Vergil

Nappa, Christopher

doi:10.1002/9780470751565.ch20

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“…Catullus’ Thetis). Nappa (2007: 382) notices only the Catullan background of the Vergilian lines. (My thanks go to Péter Somfai who has reminded me of the relevance of the Aeneid in this context.…”

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Erroneous Gazes: Lucretian Poetics in Catullus 64

Tamás

2016

J. Rom. Stud.

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This article argues for a ‘reciprocal intertextuality’ between Catullus 64 and Lucretius anticipating the poetic interplays of Augustan poets with the De Rerum Natura. Catullus’ wedding guests (proto-readers), Ariadne (proto-Narcissus), and Aegeus (proto-Dido) are interpreted here as errantes in the Lucretian sense: through their erroneous gazes presented in Poem 64, they all exemplify how not to gaze at the structure of the universe. In the Lucretio-Catullan intertextual space — generated, as it seems, by the Catullan text — a reciprocal way of reading emerges: while, on the one hand, ‘Catullus’ uses ‘Lucretius’ to show that the aesthetic experience he offers is dependent upon an erroneous, unLucretian gaze/reading which deprives us of the external spectator position, ‘Lucretius’, on the other hand, uses ‘Catullan’ characters as deterrent examples in order to teach us how not to submerge in ‘Catullus’ poetics of illusion’.

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