Silence in Catullus

Index

327 abandonment: of Ariadne, 215–21; death as, 142 absence: of friends, 94–96; physical, 24–25; of speech, 22 absentmindedness, 209 Achilles, 154, 157, 230, 292n27 Adorno, Theodor, 263n3 aemulatio, 156 Aeneas, 174–76, 180, 298n8, 298n9, 300n27, 302n71, 307n31, 307n33 agency, human, diminution of, 133, 140, 149–50, 163, 191, 193, 226 agency, poetic, 163–72; limitations on, 164, 176, 186, 204–6, 212–13 aggression: Roman, 7–8; sexual/ sexualized, 73–74, 280n65 Alexander the Great, 156–57 alienation, 248; acoustic, 232–35, 237–40 ambiguity, 304n6; deliberate, 50, 111 Ameana (character), 273n52 amicitia (friendship), 198–99 anal sex, 74–75 Anchises, 175, 307n33 animalization, 242–44 Antipater of Thessaloniki, 310n23 antisilence, continuing, in response to death, 135–36 Aphrodite, 212. See also Venus Apollonius Rhodius, 296n68 aporia, 148–49 appropriation, poetic, 204–5 Archilochus, 281n65 Ariadne, 154, 169–70, 206–36, 251, 255, 305n23, 306n26, 307n37; abandoned on the shore, 215–21; as daughter of Minos, 218–19; as fictional character, 207–8; lament of, 221–35; nakedness of, 217–19, 304n6; and soundscape, 232–35; subjected to silence, 215–21; as woven/unwoven, 213, 232 Ariadne and Theseus, story of, 207, 210–11, 219–21 Aristotle, 288n65, 289n2 Athena, 212 Attis, 178–80, 206, 208, 237–47, 251, 255, 300n31, 308n7, 308n8 audience, 143; ideal, 14–15; of listeners , 258; of readers, 93 Augustine, 264n6 Aurelius (character), 74–78, 270n26, 272n39, 281n66 authorial intention, 185, 265n19 (auto)biographical fallacy, 72, 77 autobiography, in Catullan corpus, 10 auto-fellatio, 69–70 Bacchus, 216–17, 223, 226, 233–35 Battus, 54, 275n13 Baudelaire, Charles, 289n5 bed, 31–34 Index 328 Index being-in-language, 3, 15, 83, 85, 172, 184, 193, 204, 221, 246, 257; Ariadne and, 215–16, 220–23; and being-in-time, 182; limitations to, 195; and poetics of silence, 6–8; temporary, 180–84 being-said-forever, 45 Bible, 1 Corinthians, 289n2 biographème, 265n18 biographical fallacy, 48, 72, 77 Biondi, Giuseppe, 177, 181–82, 185, 192, 299n22, 300n26, 301n56 bitterness, 137–39 body: female, 217–20; poet’s, 35 book technology, 94, 285n28 breast, female, 218 burning, as silencing, 105–6 Caelius (character), 197, 302n69 Cage, John, 4’33”, 266n22 Callimachean aesthetic, 88, 110, 153, 272n42 Callimachean poetics, 41, 53, 94, 110, 131, 152 Callimachus, 42, 70, 164, 170, 272n43, 275n13, 304n11 Calvus (character), 95–96, 191–92, 284n23 Camerius (addressee of c. 55), 4–5 capacity for language, misuse of, 242–44 captatio beneuolentiae, 214 castration, 238, 240–41, 246, 300n31 Cato the Elder, 277n35 Catullan corpus, 12–14. See also collection , of Catullan poems Catullan scholarship, 12–14 Catullus (historical poet): and “Catullus ” (poetic persona), 9–10, 12–13, 24, 80, 86–87, 135–36, 180–82, 201, 205, 250, 256, 265n17; and death of his brother, 130–36, 141–43, 145, 151–55, 172–87, 199, 220–21, 291n25; as poeta doctus, 118, 125. See also poet “Catullus” (poetic persona). See poet Celtiberians, 92 censorship, 285n29 centos, 290n13 Cicero, 52, 55, 98, 269n11, 270n18, 278n49, 279n57, 289n2, 291n24, 296n65; letters to Atticus, 268n7; on “new poetry,” 272n43 Cinna, 115–16 Clausen, Wendell, 267n29 Clodia (historical figure), 254–55 collection, of Catullan poems, 13–14, 70, 146–47, 279n55, 292n30 color, 277n36 color contrast, 59, 61, 209, 218, 241, 304n13 coming of age, feminine, 209–11, 221–22 communication, with the dead, 190–94. See also conversation competition, poetic. See oneupmanship , poetic; poetic game complaint, of Ariadne, 227–29 composition, literary, 296n66 concealment: and feminized figures, 211–13; ironic, 87–88 conditionality, 190–94 Conte, Gian Biagio, 185 conversation, 6–9, 11, 21–24, 55, 62, 64, 100–119, 123, 131, 138, 153–55, 183–84, 190, 201, 203; absence of, 31 (see also silence); and death poems, 139–40; desire for, 33–34, 178; exaltation of, 190; feminine, 206, 225–26, 228–36, 303n3 (see also femininity); impossibility of, with the dead, 139, 163, 172, 174–76, 182, 190–94, 300n27; interrupted by death, 161, 186; limited by the conventional, 149; one-sided, 176–78; overheard, 45, 77, 87 (see also overhearing); and poetics of silence, 148–50, 152, 172, 175 (see also poetics of silence); as prefiguration of absolute silence, 120–21 (see also silence, absolute); in Roman society, 268n7. See also overhearing Index 329 Cornelius (character), 41–42, 116, 195–96, 279n52 Cornelius Nepos, 196, 272n43 criticism, poet and, 86, 89–92, 98–100 cunnilingus...