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A review by durrenmatt
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
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3.5
It was nice to learn about Catullus, but clearly too little is known about him to fill a book. The author therefore fills in the blanks by taking liberties but also by making lots of digressions - into Catullus' contemporaries, the political situation as we are nearing the end of the Republic but also the arts and mythology. The problem with these digressions is that either you are familiar with them already, in which case they are superfluous or you are not, in which case they are much too brief and sketchy to really understand.
I liked the Pliny book better.
It was nice to learn about Catullus, but clearly too little is known about him to fill a book. The author therefore fills in the blanks by taking liberties but also by making lots of digressions - into Catullus' contemporaries, the political situation as we are nearing the end of the Republic but also the arts and mythology. The problem with these digressions is that either you are familiar with them already, in which case they are superfluous or you are not, in which case they are much too brief and sketchy to really understand.
I liked the Pliny book better.