{"id":9524,"date":"2015-05-12T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2015-05-12T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:01:15","slug":"the-jewel-of-islands-catullus-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2015\/05\/12\/the-jewel-of-islands-catullus-31\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewel of Islands (Catullus 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9524-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Stagliano_Catullus-31.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Stagliano_Catullus-31.mp3\">http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Stagliano_Catullus-31.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Catullus&#8217; poem of joyful homecoming to his beloved Sirmio\u00a0is discussed, translated, and read in Latin by <strong>Alexandra Stagliano<\/strong>. Catullus, she argues,\u00a0takes something personal and easy to relate to, and makes it seem grand and epic with mythological imagery, wordplay, and elegant repetition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Lake-Garda-Sirmio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9526\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Lake-Garda-Sirmio-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Garda  Sirmio\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Lake-Garda-Sirmio-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Lake-Garda-Sirmio-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2015\/05\/Lake-Garda-Sirmio.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paene \u012bnsul\u0101rum, Sirmi\u014d, insul\u0101rumque<\/p>\n<p>ocelle, qu\u0101scumque in liquentibus st\u0101gn\u012bs<\/p>\n<p>mar\u012bque v\u0101st\u014d fert uterque Nept\u016bnus,<\/p>\n<p>quam t\u0113 libenter quamque laetus inv\u012bs\u014d,<\/p>\n<p>vix m\u012b ipse cr\u0113d\u0113ns Thyniam atque Bithyn\u014ds<\/p>\n<p>liquisse camp\u014ds et vid\u0113re t\u0113 in t\u016bt\u014d.<\/p>\n<p>\u014c quid sol\u016bt\u012bs est be\u0101tius c\u016br\u012bs,<\/p>\n<p>cum m\u0113ns onus rep\u014dnit, ac per\u0113gr\u012bn\u014d<\/p>\n<p>lab\u014dre fess\u012b v\u0113nimus larem ad nostrum,<\/p>\n<p>d\u0113s\u012bder\u0101t\u014dque acqui\u0113scimus lect\u014d?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catullus&#8217; poem of joyful homecoming to his beloved Sirmio\u00a0is discussed, translated, and read in Latin by Alexandra Stagliano. Catullus, she argues,\u00a0takes something personal and easy to relate to, and makes it seem grand and epic with mythological imagery, wordplay, and elegant repetition. Paene \u012bnsul\u0101rum, Sirmi\u014d, insul\u0101rumque ocelle, qu\u0101scumque in liquentibus st\u0101gn\u012bs mar\u012bque v\u0101st\u014d fert uterque [&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-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","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=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}