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Title

Roman receptions of Sappho / edited by Thea S. Thorsen and Stephen Harrison.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Thorsen, Thea Selliaas
• Harrison, S. J.

Description

x, 455 pages : illustration; 23 cm.

Summary

Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho's poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho's legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho's longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho's Roman reception, which is the aim of Roman Receptions of Sappho that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial.

Series Statement

Classical presences

Subjects

• Rome (Empire)
• Sappho > Influence
• Sappho > Appreciation > Rome
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Art appreciation
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Love poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Sappho > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-432) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: Ecce Sappho / Thea S. Thorsen -- Sappho: Transparency and obstruction / Thea S. Thorsen -- Notes on the ancient reception of Sappho / Richard Hunter -- Lucretius and Sapphic uoluptas / Laurel Fulkerson -- As important as Callimachus? : An essay on Sappho in Catullus and beyond / Thea S. Thorsen -- Odi et amo : on Lesbias name in Catullus / Lars Morten Gram -- Sapphic echoes in Catullus 1-14 / Olivier Thevenaz -- Shades of Sappho in Vergil / Stephen Harrison -- Sappho and Latin poetry: the case of Horace / Richard Hunter -- Sappho, Alcaeus and the literary timing of Horace / Thea S. Thorsen -- Sappho in Propertius? / S. J. Heyworth -- Vates Lesbia: Images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid / Jennifer Ingleheart -- Sappho as pupil of the praeceptor amoris and Sappho as magistra amoris : Some lessons of the Ars amatoria anticipated in Heroides 15 / Chiara Elisei -- The newest Sappho (2016) and Ovids Heroides 15 / Thea S. Thorsen -- Sappho in Roman epigram / Gideon Nisbet -- Receiving receptions received: A new collection of testimonia sapphica c. 600 BCE-1000 CE / Thea S. Thorsen and Robert Emil Berge.

Call Number

JFD 19-2268

ISBN

• 9780198829430
• 0198829434

LCCN

2018954826

OCLC

1042352895

Title

Roman receptions of Sappho / edited by Thea S. Thorsen and Stephen Harrison.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Classical presences

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-432) and indexes.

Added Author

Thorsen, Thea Selliaas, editor.

Harrison, S. J., editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2268