{"title":"Sappho in Roman Epigram","authors":"G. Nisbet","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that Martial positions himself in relationship with his great model Catullus through a number of highly sophisticated yet ‘deformed’ allusions to Sappho. It argues further that these allusions help Martial in asserting his own, individual poetic project. The line of reasoning emerges from close scrutiny of a number of details from a wide range of Greek and Roman epigrams, such as that in which Valerius Aedituus alludes to Sappho fr. 31. The main investigation, however, remains concentrated on crucial passages from Martial, compared with relevant passages from the satires of Juvenal, which together form a pattern in which the figure of Sappho appears key.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114647600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sapphic Echoes in Catullus 1–14","authors":"Olivier Thévenaz","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that a pattern of Sapphic allusions in the first fourteen poems of Catullus’ poetry book constitute a hitherto neglected unity similar to that which scholarship now recognizes as a group of allusions to the Greek epigrammatist Meleager in the same Catullan corpus. This Sapphic pattern, inter alia, confirms the importance of Sappho as a model author for Catullus. The argument emerges from a close examination of Catullus’ first fourteen poems, particularly poems 2, 3, 6, 8, and 11, as well as Catullus’ epithalamial poem 62, in comparison with Sappho poem 1, her fragments 105b (Voigt), and 137, whose metrical form of Alcaics (uniquely among extant Sapphic fragments) paves the way for an investigation into the institution of ancient symposia and the theme of friendship in Greek and Roman poetry.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122109133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sappho, Alcaeus, and the Literary Timing of Horace","authors":"T. S. Thorsen","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues on the basis of cues in Horace’s Odes 4.9 that Sappho fr. 16 is an important intertext for Horace’s Odes 1.15. Though neglected as such in scholarship, this chapter aims at showing that the poem’s background is precisely Sappho fr. 16, which helps bring out the crucial question of literary timing. This question, which is more or less important to all Augustan poets, emerges as an especially important topic in both Horatian poems. The Trojan War features prominently in this chapter, which, in addition to the Horatian poems and the fragment of Sappho, investigates several passages from Homer, Alcaeus, and Proclus’ summary of the Cypria.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130224167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Receiving Receptions Received","authors":"T. S. Thorsen, R. Berge","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter includes the most comprehensive collection of Greek and Latin testimonies to Sappho to date, with English translations. The collection is preceded by a brief introduction that outlines the organization of previous collections and explains how the present collection builds on and differs from these. Furthermore, the chapter shows how interpolations, emendations, conjectures, and supplements in critical editions, from which the testimonies are taken, give such editions the character of a reception palimpsest. This chapter avoids the organization of existing collections into thematic sections, which run the risk of occluding the chronological order in which the testimonies appear as well as of imposing an unwarranted narrative onto the ancient testimonies to Sappho. Instead, the chapter presents the testimonies according to an approximate chronological order, alongside thematic key words.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131058941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"As Important as Callimachus?","authors":"T. S. Thorsen","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter departs from the fact that Sappho is a case in point for many kinds of translations in Roman culture, notably from Greek to Latin, female to male, and from one poetic form to another. By looking at Sappho and Callimachus as two sides of Catullus’ translational technique, this chapter proposes that Sappho can be regarded to be at least as important as Callimachus in the case of Catullus. Catullus, possibly inspired by an existing Hellenistic tradition, thus seems to introduce a model for pairing Sappho with another Greek, male poet, which proves productive in later Roman poets such as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and Martial.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116471579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho","authors":"R. Hunter","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The absence and presence of Sappho in ancient literary criticism is telling of her reception, not least in the Roman context, as this chapter shows. It argues that through various approaches to Sappho we can observe the dynamics of ancient literary theory, where inter alia the contrastive concepts of ἀλλότριον (‘what belongs to someone else’) and οἰκεῖον (‘what is one’s own’) prove productive for enhancing our understanding of categories such as gender, translation, and—more broadly—reception in the ancient world. The chapter covers reflections on literature in ancient literary critics, combined with analyses of passages from the poetry of Sappho and Roman poets such as Lucretius, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127765399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sappho: Transparency and Obstruction","authors":"T. S. Thorsen","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198829430.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"A number of issues obstruct our vision of Sappho and her ancient reception. This chapter revisits such obstructions as the loss of Sappho’s poetry, the difficulty of accessing information regarding e.g. Chamaeleon’s treatise on Sappho, the attestation of the Athenian sculptor Silanion’s portrait of Sappho at Rome, and the significance of the poem variously known as Ovid’s Heroides 15 and Epistula Sapphus, as well as most of the testimonies for Sappho’s alleged ugliness and association with prostitution. Finally, conflicting images of Sappho are measured against the consistently erotic depiction of her figure and poetry at Rome, where she becomes particularly closely linked with a Roman brand of the metapoetics of love poetry, dubbed erotopoetics in this volume.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122430187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sappho and Latin Poetry","authors":"R. Hunter","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents an important study of Sappho in the context of her Roman reception with regard to ancient literary theory. As in Chapter 2, also by Richard Hunter, a metaliterary pair of concepts appears central, but this time it is the pair of γλαφυρά (‘smooth’) versus αὐστηρά (‘harsh’, ‘rough’, ‘bitter’) that is at the centre of attention. The chapter shows how this pair helps to understand Sappho and how she was perceived in ancient Rome. While gauging various concepts of ancient literary style, this chapter explores passages from Hellenistic and Roman literary critics and poets, all against the background of a number of Sapphic fragments.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115766906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lucretius and Sapphic uoluptas","authors":"Laurel Fulkerson","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The philosophical aspects of Sappho’s poetry are well established, as are those of Lucretius. This chapter makes the case for a number of Sapphic allusions in Lucretius, and thus strengthens the possibility for seeing theoretical points of contact between the poetic projects of the Greek and Roman poet, which are normally regarded as incompatible. The argument emerges from the close reading of Lucretius in dialogue with Sappho 1, frr. 31 and 55, and reflects on poetic and philosophical imagery of flowers, honey, and, more generally, ancient concepts of gratification. In this way the chapter outlines a common ground between Sappho and Lucretius in their poetic-philosophical concept of pleasure.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126932125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shades of Sappho in Vergil","authors":"S. Harrison","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues, for the first time in classical scholarship, for Sapphic allusions in all three works in Vergil’s output. The argument has important consequences for our understanding of how different ancient genres relate to each other when allusions to epithalamia are found in pastoral and lyric allusions are found in epic, as well as of how Greek literature relates to that which is Roman. Close readings of passages from Vergil’s Eclogues, Georgics, and a number of passages from various books of the Aeneid, frequently compared to specimens of other Latin poetry, alongside a number of Sappho’s fragments, helps in deepening our understanding of both Sappho and Vergil.","PeriodicalId":111748,"journal":{"name":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","volume":"93 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133664763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}