Finding Catullus in Translation
Finding Catullus in Translation
The introduction shows Roman attitudes toward translation to be unlike our own and suggests that modern assumptions about translation have limited our understanding of Roman literature generally and Catullus’s poetry specifically. It outlines recent developments in Roman translation studies and discusses the distinctive features of Roman translation theory and practice (e.g. concern with control rather than fidelity, disinterest in literal translation). It also contextualizes poetic translation within issues central to Roman culture more broadly, in particular hellenization, bilingualism, colonialism, and Rome’s historical relationship with Greece. It situates Catullus’s own translation of small-scale poetic genres (lyric, epigram, etc.) within the broader context of late Republican translation theory and practice, including the work of Lucretius and Cicero. It ends with a chapter by chapter outline of the book’s argument.
Keywords: translation studies, translation theory, poetic translation, Roman culture, Hellenization, Bilingualism, Colonialism, late Republican, Cicero
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