Roman Receptions of Sappho

by Thorsen, Thea S.; Harrison, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780198829430
• ISBN10: 0198829434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-03-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Thea S. Thorsen, Associate Professor of Classics, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), ,Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford,

Thea S. Thorsen is Associate Professor of Classics at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. She is the author of Ovid's Early Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2014), contributing sole editor of Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (CUP, 2013), contributing co-editor of Dynamics of Ancient Prose (de Gruyter, 2018), and editor of Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age (Akademika Publishing, 2012). She is the author of numerous articles on Greek and Roman literature in English and Norwegian and was the first to translate all of Ovid's love elegies - in verse - into Norwegian.


Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Adjunct Professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. He has published extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including the following relevant volumes for OUP: A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (1991), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (OUP, 2009), (with Amanda Wrigley), Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays [jointly with Amanda Wrigley] (OUP, 2013), and (joint ed. with Lorna Hardwick) Classics in the Modern World: A 'Democratic Turn'? (OUP, 2013).

Table of Contents

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