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Notes on the text of Catalepton 10
- Abstract:
- Catalepton 10 (Sabinus ille) is a unique survival from antiquity: it is the only parody of an entire poem to reach us, and is written in pure iambic trimeters, a near intractable metre. Addressed to Sabinus, an upstart muleteer, the poem launches a stinging attack at him, and draws attention to his status as a parvenu. It remains incredibly close to its charming model—Catullus 4 (Phaselos ille)—in structural, lexical, stylistic and metrical terms, but rather different in purport. In attempting to reassess a number of problems in the text of the poem, the textual critic ought largely to be guided by the relationship of Sabinus ille to its model, as it is clear that the author of Catalepton 10 was an incredibly close reader of the Catullan text and sought not only to imitate through parody but also to subvert and deflate his predecessor's poem.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/S0009838819000752
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Classical Quarterly More from this journal
- Volume:
- 69
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 912-915
- Publication date:
- 2019-10-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-02-01
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1471-6844
- ISSN:
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0009-8388
- Language:
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English
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1003516
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2019-10-27
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- Classical Association
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- Copyright © The Classical Association 2019
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838819000752
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