Diss.--Breslau.

Univ., Diss.--Hamburg, 2004.

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the limits of evidence concerning the biography of the Roman poet Catullus, the texts of his poems, and the earlier poetic influence on his longer works and to compare scholarly opinions about those topics. To attain those objectives, both classical authors and modern scholars were used as sources. This work has five chapters. The first outlines the problems of Catullan scholia. The second and third discuss his life and texts. The fourth and fifth concern Catullus' poetic creed and his borrowings from earlier poets and poetic traditions. This paper's conclusion is that, although no full assessment of the poet can be made without additional evidence, Catullus remains a major poetic figure deserving of additional study.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Partindo da premissa de que a forma mais produtiva de abordar a obra de determinado poeta é levantar os pontos-chave de sua poética, explicitados em suas próprias palavras, quer em prefácios, quer em poemas metalingüísticos (que podemos aqui chamar metapoemas), este trabalho se propõe a, a partir da vasta produção do poeta Marcos Valério Marcial (c.40 105 d.C.), selecionar, traduzir, anotar e comentar analiticamente o conjunto de metapoemas que explicitam o conceito de epigrama para Marcial que é o gênero que pratica no que tange à matéria (ou invenção), à elocução e à disposição. / Assuming the premise that the most efficient way of approaching the work of a certain poet is to determine the key points of his poetry, made explicit by his own words, either in prefaces or in metalinguistic poems (which we shall call \"metapoems\"), the objective of this study is, from the vast production of the poet Martial (c.40 - 105 AD), to select, translate, annotate and comment analytically the corpus of \"metapoems\" that explains Martials concept of epigram - the genre this poet practices - in terms of invention, style and disposition.

Partindo da premissa de que a forma mais produtiva de abordar a obra de determinado poeta é levantar os pontos-chave de sua poética, explicitados em suas próprias palavras, quer em prefácios, quer em poemas metalingüísticos (que podemos aqui chamar metapoemas), este trabalho se propõe a, a partir da vasta produção do poeta Marcos Valério Marcial (c.40 105 d.C.), selecionar, traduzir, anotar e comentar analiticamente o conjunto de metapoemas que explicitam o conceito de epigrama para Marcial que é o gênero que pratica no que tange à matéria (ou invenção), à elocução e à disposição. / Assuming the premise that the most efficient way of approaching the work of a certain poet is to determine the key points of his poetry, made explicit by his own words, either in prefaces or in metalinguistic poems (which we shall call \"metapoems\"), the objective of this study is, from the vast production of the poet Martial (c.40 - 105 AD), to select, translate, annotate and comment analytically the corpus of \"metapoems\" that explains Martials concept of epigram - the genre this poet practices - in terms of invention, style and disposition.