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Article: Catullus, today and always.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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Poems of Love and Hate, by Catullus, translated by Josephine Balmer; Bloodaxe, 2003, about $35.
Chasing Catullus, by Josephine Balmer; Bloodaxe, 2004, about $35.
Catullus for Children, by Anna Jackson; Auckland University Press, 2004, $24.95.
ANYONE WHO HAS SPENT any time in Italy will have seen Catullus innumerable times: a young man impeccably dressed, sunglasses dangling precariously from one ear, standing nonchalantly on a street corner or in a piazza surrounded by a group of like-dressed youths. Fellini's I Vitelloni admirably portrayed just such a group of amiable layabouts cum rebels. Love, when they are not too busy posturing, mocking, ...