Roman Receptions of Sappho
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 January 2019
- ISBN 9780198829430
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages472 pages
- Size 223x149x34 mm
- Weight 712 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 0
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Short description:
Sappho is a towering figure in Western culture. This volume takes new steps in scholarship by focusing on Sappho's influence on Roman authors, and explores not only a critical phase in Sappho's reception history, namely that of ancient Rome, but also central Latin texts, which have had great influence on post-classical cultures, up until today.
MoreLong description:
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.
this volume's overall contribution to a deeper awareness of how Sappho was received in Rome is unquestionable.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Notes on Texts and Translations
Introduction: 'Ecce Sappho'
'Sappho: Transparency and obstruction'
'Notes on the ancient reception of Sappho'
'Lucretius and Sapphic Voluptas'
'As important as Callimachus? An essay on Sappho in Catullus and beyond'
'Odi et amo: on Lesbia's name in Catullus'
'Sapphic echoes in Catullus 1-14'
'Shades of Sappho in Vergil'
'Sappho and Latin poetry: the case of Horace'
'Sappho, Alcaeus and the literary timing of Horace'
'Sappho in Propertius?'
'Vates Lesbia: Images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid'
'Sappho as pupil of the praeceptor amoris and Sappho as magistra amoris: Some lessons of the Ars amatoria anticipated in Heroides 15'
'The newest Sappho (2016) and Ovid's Heroides 15'
'Sappho in Roman epigram'
'Receiving receptions received: A new collection of testimonia sapphica c. 600 BCE-1000 CE'
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