Roman Receptions of SapphoThea S. Thorsen, Stephen Harrison 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. |
Contents
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Sappho Transparency and Obstruction | 27 |
Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho | 45 |
Lucretius and Sapphic uoluptas | 61 |
As Important as Callimachus? An Essay on Sappho in Catullus and Beyond | 77 |
Odi et amo On Lesbias Name in Catullus | 95 |
Sapphic Echoes in Catullus 114 | 119 |
Shades of Sappho in Vergil | 137 |
Sappho in Propertius? | 185 |
Vates Lesbia Images of Sappho in the Poetry of Ovid | 205 |
Sappho as a Pupil of the praeceptor amoris and Sappho as magistra amoris Some Lessons of the Ars amatoria Anticipated in Heroides 15 | 227 |
The Newest Sappho 2016 and Ovids Heroides 15 | 249 |
Sappho in Roman Epigram | 265 |
Receiving Receptions Received A New Collection of testimonia Sapphica c600 BCAD 1000 | 289 |
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Sappho and Latin Poetry The Case of Horace | 151 |
Sappho Alcaeus and the Literary Timing of Horace | 165 |
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Aeolian Alcaeus allusion Anacreon ancient Anth Anthologia Palatina Anthology Aphrodite Athenaeus beauty Callimachus Carm Catull Catullan Catullus Catullus 51 Chapter 15 Charaxus context Deipnosophistae echoes epigram Erinna erotic famous fragment girl goddess Greek Greek Anthology Helen Heroides 15 hetaera Heyworth Holzberg Homer Horace Horace's Hunter Ingleheart Latin Learned Banqueters Lesbia Lesbos literary Lucretius lyre lyric Martial metapoetic metre mihi Muses Mytilene name Lesbia Nereus Obbink Odes Ovid Ovid's Ovidian passage Phaon poem poet poetic Posidippus Propertius puella quae reference to Sappho Roman reception Sapphic Sapphic stanza Sappho 31 Sappho's poetry songs stanza suggests Sulpicia Tatian testimonia Thévenaz Thorsen and Berge tradition translation verse Voigt woman women ἀλλὰ ἂν γὰρ δὲ διὰ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ μὲν μοι οἱ οὐ οὐκ περὶ πρὸς Σαπφοῦς Σαπφὼ τὰ τε καὶ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς