TY - BOOK ID - 52427254 TI - Roman receptions of Sappho AU - Thorsen, Thea Selliaas AU - Harrison, Stephen John PY - 2019 SN - 9780198829430 0198829434 PB - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Art appreciation. KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). KW - Love poetry, Greek KW - Love poetry, Greek. KW - History and criticism. KW - Sappho KW - Sappho. KW - Appreciation KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Influence. KW - Rome (Empire). KW - Women poets KW - Poets, Latin KW - Latin poets KW - Poetesses KW - Poets, Women KW - Women as poets KW - Poets KW - Women authors KW - Safo KW - Sapʻo KW - Saffo KW - Sapphus KW - Sapfo KW - Сафо KW - سيفو KW - Safona KW - Sapho KW - Σαπφῶ KW - Ψάπφω KW - Psappho KW - Rome. KW - Rim KW - Roman Empire KW - Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) KW - Romi (Empire) KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Rome (Italy) KW - Sapfo van Lesbos KW - Sappho van Lesbos UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52427254 AB - 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 ER -