Description:
This revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978) offers a new text of the poems, with a commentary, a codicology of the manuscript tradition, and a thorough review of Catullus scholarship.
Brief description:
Douglas F.S. Thomson is Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Toronto.
Review Quotes:
'Thomson is a most reliable and sympathetic guide to the poet. In addition to issues of text, he is especially concerned with matters of language and structure ... Here a well-known poem appears in a new light, and this is characteristic of the very considerable achievement of this edition. Thomson has made a significant contribution to the study of Latin poetry by producing a freshly considered and sharply illuminated text of Catallus that is founded upon the sound practice of philology.'