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Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux, whose life spanned the greater part of the fourth century AD, was one of the most significant literary and political figures of his age. After an academic career in his native Gaul he was appointed tutor to the future emperor Gratian, a position through which he achieved great power for himself and his family. He was made consul in 379 and later lived to enjoy a ripe old age as the grand old man of Latin letters. In this modern edition of Ausonius' short poems, collected together under the general heading of epigrams, N.M. Kay gives a line-by-line commentar

Epigrams, Latin. --- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. --- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Latin epigrams --- Ausonio --- Ausone --- Ausonio, Decimo Magno --- Ausonius, Decius Magnus --- Ausonius, D. Magnus --- Avsonīĭ, Det︠s︡im Magn --- Авсоній, Децим Магн

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Elegiac poetry, Latin --- Epigrams, Latin --- Literature and society --- Love poetry, Latin --- Social problems in literature --- Social values in literature --- History and criticism --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius --- Catul --- Catull --- Catulle --- Catulli, C. Valerii --- Catullo, Gaio Valerio --- Catullus, C. Valerius --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius, --- Catullus, Gajus Valerius --- Catulo --- Katull, Gaǐ Valeriǐ --- Katullus, Kaius Valerius --- Valerio Cátulo, Cayo --- Катулл --- Political and social views. --- Catullus, Caius Valerius

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This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the relationship with Lesbia and to ignore the majority of the shorter poems, which are instead directed at other men. Professor Wray approaches these poems in the light of more recent models for understanding male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, placing them in their specifically Roman historical context while bringing out their strikingly 'postmodern' qualities. The result is an alternative way of reading the fiercely aggressive and delicately refined agonism performed in Catullus' shorter poems. All Latin and Greek quoted is supplied with an English translation.

Elegiac poetry, Latin --- Epigrams, Latin --- Intertextuality. --- Love poetry, Latin --- Masculinity in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rome --- In literature. --- -Intertextuality --- -Masculinity in literature --- Men in literature --- Self in literature --- -Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Latin love poetry --- Latin poetry --- Latin epigrams --- Latin elegiac poetry --- History and criticism --- -Catul --- Catull --- Catulle --- Catulli, C. Valerii --- Catullo, Gaio Valerio --- Catullus, C. Valerius --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius, --- Catullus, Gajus Valerius --- Catulo --- Katull, Gaǐ Valeriǐ --- Katullus, Kaius Valerius --- Valerio Cátulo, Cayo --- Катулл --- Criticism and interpretation --- -In literature --- Masculinity in literature --- Intertextuality --- Poésie d'amour latine --- Epigrammes latines --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Moi dans la littérature --- Intertextualité --- Histoire et critique --- Rome dans la littérature --- In literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Catul --- Catullus, Caius Valerius --- Arts and Humanities --- History