Journeys and Nostalgia in Catullus

• Autores: Rebecca Armstrong
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 109, Nº 1, 2013, págs. 43-71
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article explores the themes of travel, homecoming and homesickness in Catullus' poetry. A recurrent interest throughout much of the poet's oeuvre, the idea of the journey offers the reader multiple angles of interpretation: from the emotional to the metapoetic, and from contemporary social contexts to far-off mythical ones, all along the way contributing to the complex presentation of the poet himself. Ultimately, the reader is left with a paradoxical picture of Catullus as both a wanderer and a stay-at-home, both an achiever of nostos and a victim of incurable nostalgia.