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Using Authentic Latin Poetry in Lower Level
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by Mary English, Montclair State University
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SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING


MARTIAL

Howell, Peter. A Commentary on Book One of the Epigrams of Martial. London: The Athlone Press, 1980. excellent introduction, Latin text with accompanying translations, and a line-by-line commentary

Humphries, Rolfe (trans.). Martial: Selected Epigrams. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. introduction and notes by Peter Bovie

Kay, N. M. Martial Book XI: A Commentary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Latin text with a line-by-line commentary

Ker, Walter C. A. (ed.). Martial: Epigrams. Vol. I-II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.

Leary, T. J. Martial Book XIV: The Apophoreta. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1996. introduction, Latin text, and line- by-line commentary

Mills, Barriss (trans.). Epigrams from Martial. A Verse Translation. Lafayette: Purdue University Studies, 1969.

Murray, Philip (trans.). Poems After Martial. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

Post, Edwin (ed.). Selected Epigrams of Martial. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. introduction, Latin text, and line-by-line commentary at the bottom of page; excellent and extensive selections

Shackleton Bailey, D. R. (ed.). Martial: Epigrams. Vol. I-III. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Sullivan, J. P. (ed.). The Classical Heritage: Martial. New York: Garland Publisher, Inc., 1993. collected essays on Martial; excellent index of editions and commentaries

___________. Martial: The Unexpected Classic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. chapters on Martial’s life and times, the epigram tradition, Martial’s literary themes, and Martial’s role in the classical tradition; excellent maps and bibliography

Sullivan, J. P. and Peter Whigham (eds.). Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. famous translations of Martial’s poems with accompanying Latin text

Whigham, Peter (trans.). Letter to Juvenal: 101 Epigrams from Martial. London: Anvil Press Poetry Ltd, 1985. introduction by J. P. Sullivan


CATULLUS

Ancona, Ronnie. Catullus Selections for Advanced Placement and College Classes. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. (anticipated date of publication January 2003).

Arnold, Bruce and Andrew Aronson and Gilbert Lawall (eds.). Love and Betrayal: A Catullus Reader. Prentice Hall, 2000.

Bender, Henry V. and Phyllis Young Forsyth (eds.). Catullus: AP Edition. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 1996. introduction, Latin text for AP syllabus, and vocabulary and grammatical notes

Ellis, Robinson. A Commentary on Catullus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1876.

Ferguson, John. Catullus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. excellent, concise study of Catullus’ work; part of the Greece and Rome Series

Fordyce, C. J. Catullus: A Commentary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. introduction, Latin text (incomplete), and line-by-line commentary

Garrison, Daniel H. (ed.). The Student’s Catullus. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. brief introduction, Latin text, excellent student-oriented notes, maps, appendix on meter, and complete vocabulary

Havelock, E. A. The Lyric Genius of Catullus. New York: Russell & Russell, 1929.

Harrauer, Herman. A Bibliography to Catullus. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1979.

Holoka, James P. Gaius Valerius Catullus: A Systematic Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1985.

Kaiser, Leo M. Catullus: Love and Hate - Selected Short Poems. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 1993. notes and running vocabulary for selected poems (2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 31, 43, 51, 65, 70, 72, 75, 76, 85, 86, 87, 101)

Krostenko, Brian A. Cicero, Catullus and the Language of Social Performance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Lee, Guy (trans.). The Complete Poems of Catullus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lyne, R. O. A. M. (ed.). Selections from Catullus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. good selection of 19 famous poems (1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 31, 34, 45, 46, 51, 64.50-75, 70, 72, 84, 85, 101); selected vocabulary on page facing the Latin text; minimal grammatical notes embedded within the vocabulary lists

Merrill, Elmer T. (ed.). Catullus. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1893. introduction, section on meter, and Latin text with line-by- line commentary at the bottom of the page

Quinn, Kenneth. The Catullan Revolution. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1999.

______________. Catullus: The Poems. London: St. Martin’s Press, 1973. introduction, Latin text, and line-by-line commentary

Skinner, Marilyn B. Catullus’ Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems. New York: Arno Press, 1981.

Small, Stuart. Catullus: A Reader’s Guide to the Poems. Lanham: University Press of America, 1983.

Wiseman, T. P. Catullus and His World: A Reappraisal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Wray, David. Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

OVID’S HEROIDES

Hine, Daryl (trans.). Ovid’s Heroines: A Verse Translation of the Heroides. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Jacobson, Howard. Ovid’s Heroides. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. essays on individual letters

Kenney, E. J. (ed.). Ovid Heroides XVI-XXI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Knox, Peter E. (ed.). Ovid Heroides: Select Epistles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.



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