{"id":9506,"date":"2015-05-12T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9506"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:49:34","slug":"an-absurd-comparison-catullus-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2015\/05\/12\/an-absurd-comparison-catullus-43\/","title":{"rendered":"An Absurd Comparison (Catullus 43)"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9506-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Joseph_.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Joseph_.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Joseph_.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>In poem 43 Catullus mounts an effective attack against his nemesis Mamurra by attacking Mamurra&#8217;s girlfriend Ameana. The wit in the invective comes from the blatant use of <em>ad hominem<\/em> arguments, and of litotes, or understatement, argues <strong>Kathryn Joseph<\/strong>. Her translation brilliantly conveys\u00a0the scabrous tone of the original.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9508 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Joseph-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Joseph-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Joseph.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Salve, nec minimo puella naso<\/p>\n<p>nec bello pede nec nigris ocellis<\/p>\n<p>nec longis digitis nec ore sicco<\/p>\n<p>nec sane nimis elegante lingua,<\/p>\n<p>decoctoris amica Formiani.<\/p>\n<p>Ten provincia narrat esse bellam?<\/p>\n<p>Tecum Lesbia nostra comparatur?<\/p>\n<p>O saeclum insapiens et infacetum!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image: Portrait of a woman from Fayyunm, Egypt (Greco-Roman). Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/pictify.com\/186443\/unknown-fayum-portrait-of-a-woman-encaustic-greco-roman\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Liston<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In poem 43 Catullus mounts an effective attack against his nemesis Mamurra by attacking Mamurra&#8217;s girlfriend Ameana. The wit in the invective comes from the blatant use of ad hominem arguments, and of litotes, or understatement, argues Kathryn Joseph. Her translation brilliantly conveys\u00a0the scabrous tone of the original. Salve, nec minimo puella naso nec bello [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}