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...
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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. Cover -- Roman Receptions of Sappho -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Notes on Texts and Translations -- Introduction: Ecce Sappho -- Sappho: A Classical Presence in Antiquity -- Ancient Receptions: Theories and Metaphors -- Sappho's Poetry: A Brief Overview -- Sappho at Rome -- Sappho and Roman Poetry: Receptions from Lucretius to Martial -- 1: Sappho: Transparency and Obstruction -- Loss, Neglect, and Inauthenticity -- Devaluation I: Poor Looks -- Devaluation II: Prostitution -- Eroticism -- Concluding Remarks -- 2: Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho -- 3: Lucretius and Sapphic uoluptas -- Opening Pleasures -- Disease and Pleasure -- Pleasing Imagery and Metapoetics -- Sappho and Lucretius: (Un)common Pleasures -- 4: As Important as Callimachus?: An Essay on Sappho in Catullus and Beyond -- Catullus 51-A Testimony to Sappho's Poetic Power? -- Translation: A Common Context for Sappho and Callimachus in Catullus? -- Problematic Admiration? -- Gender-Inclusive Metapoetics? -- Love and Gender versus Poetics and Aesthetic Ideals -- Sappho at Rome -- Sappho at Home? -- 5: Odi et amo: On Lesbia's Name in Catullus -- Sappho -- Beauty -- The Hetaera -- Fellatio -- Summary and Conclusion -- 6: Sapphic Echoes in Catullus 1-14 -- Sappho's Erotic and Nuptial Voices in Catullus 11 -- Opening the Collection: Catullus 2-3 and Sappho 1 -- Advising Oneself: Catullus 8 and (Again) Sappho 1 -- Love and Friendship in Dialogue: Catullus 6 and Sappho fr. 137 Voigt -- 7: Shades of Sappho in Vergil -- Introduction -- Sapphic Epithalamia: Hexameters in Hexameters -- Aeneas and Sapphic Love-Symptoms -- Two Final Possibilities -- Conclusion -- 8: Sappho and Latin Poetry: The Case of Horace -- 9: Sappho, Alcaeus, and the Literary Timing of Horace -- Sappho 16.1-12: Fighting the Trojan War?.
