In the past century, scholars have observed a veritable full cast of characters from Roman Comedy in the poetry of Catullus.
This book sketches a more coherent picture of Catullus\' use of Roman Comedy and shows that individual points of contact with the theatre in his corpus are part of a larger, more sustained poetic pr.
Despite this growing recognition of comedy\'s allusive presence in Catullus\' work, there has never been an extended analysis of how he engaged with this foundational Roman genre.
In the past century, scholars have observed a veritable full cast of characters from Roman Comedy in the poetry of Catullus