Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Chapter 19 Sappho in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greek Literature
- Chapter 20 Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry
- Chapter 21 Sappho at Rome
- Chapter 22 Sappho in Imperial Greek Literature
- Chapter 23 Sappho at Byzantium
- Chapter 24 Early Modern Sapphos in France and England
- Chapter 25 Early Modern and Modern German, Italian, and Spanish Sapphos
- Chapter 26 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States
- Chapter 27 Sappho and Modern Greece
- Chapter 28 Sappho in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
- Chapter 29 Sappho in Australia and New Zealand
- Chapter 30 Sappho in Latin America
- Chapter 31 Sappho in Hebrew Literature
- Chapter 32 Sappho in India
- Chapter 33 Sappho in China and Japan
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Chapter 21 - Sappho at Rome
from Part IV - Receptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Chapter 19 Sappho in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greek Literature
- Chapter 20 Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry
- Chapter 21 Sappho at Rome
- Chapter 22 Sappho in Imperial Greek Literature
- Chapter 23 Sappho at Byzantium
- Chapter 24 Early Modern Sapphos in France and England
- Chapter 25 Early Modern and Modern German, Italian, and Spanish Sapphos
- Chapter 26 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States
- Chapter 27 Sappho and Modern Greece
- Chapter 28 Sappho in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
- Chapter 29 Sappho in Australia and New Zealand
- Chapter 30 Sappho in Latin America
- Chapter 31 Sappho in Hebrew Literature
- Chapter 32 Sappho in India
- Chapter 33 Sappho in China and Japan
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Summary
Catullus features heavily in Chapter 21 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho, but he is by no means the only Roman literary figure to have found in Sappho an important predecessor. Ovid, Horace, and others give powerful evidence of her influence in Latin literature.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho , pp. 290 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
- 2
- Cited by