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SoSe 15: Horaz/Catull

Susanne Schäfer

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"Catullus and Horace are traditionally read together in sequence as the two major practitioners of Latin lyric poetry. For most first-time readers who encounter them in this fashion, it could be said that Catullus appeals primarily to the heart, while Horace appeals more to the mind. Catullus certainly feels more passionate, accessible and immediate, speaking directly as he does to universal human emotions such as love, hatred, jealousy, and grief. Students frequently fall in love with Catullus for precisely this reason, although some will choose to resist what they regard as his overwrought representations of turbulent but essentially ephemeral bursts of feeling. […] Horace, by contrast, strikes his readers as more overtly literary from the start. After some initial struggles with his complicated stanzas and learned allusions, most will eventually become attuned to the sounds, images, and structures of his polished, smoothly flowing verse. Some grow to admire Horace for his subtlety, while others continue to view his poems as being rather too careful and cerebral to be particularly endearing." (R.L.B. McNeill, "Catullus and Horace", in: M. B. Skinner (Hrsg.), "A Companion to Catullus" (Malden, MA 2007), S. 357 Im Kurs werden wir uns beiden Dichtern zu gleichen Teilen widmen, sie aber nicht nach-, sondern mit- und manchmal auch gegeneinander lesen, indem wir in jeder Sitzung Texte beider Autoren übersetzen, interpretieren und vergleichen, die thematisch oder motivisch verwandt oder voneinander abhängig sind. Bitte bereiten Sie zur ersten Sitzung Cat. 1 und 95 sowie Hor. carm. I,6 vor! Textausgaben: o C. Valerii Catulli Carmina, ed. R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford 1958 bzw. neueste Auflage) o Horatius: Opera, ed. D.R. Shackleton Bailey (München 2001) Kommentare: o Catull: ? D.F.S. Thomson, Toronto 2003 ? W. Kroll, Leipzig 1989 o Horaz: ? R.G.M. Nisbet/ M. Hubbard, Oxford 1970-1978, ND: Oxford 2004 ? A. Kiessling/ R. Heinze, Berlin 1930, ND: Hildesheim 1984 close

14 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Wed, 16:00 - 18:00 14 Class schedule

Wed, 2015-04-15 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Susanne Schäfer