Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons

This is a study of the emergence, development, and florescence of a distinctly ''late Republican'' socio-textual culture as recorded in the writings of this period''s two most influential authors, Catullus and Cicero. It reveals a multi-faceted textual - rather than more traditionally defined ''literary'' - world that both defines the intellectual life of the late Republic, and lays the foundation...