{"product_id":"roman-receptions-of-sappho-9780198829430","title":"Roman Receptions of Sappho","description":"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\u003cbr\u003ewe 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\u003cbr\u003eworks 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\u003cbr\u003eSappho'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.\u003cbr\u003eSurely, 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\u003cbr\u003eLucretius to that of Martial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thea S. Thorsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.50w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198829430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThea S. Thorsen, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Classics, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), \u003c\/em\u003e, Stephen Harrison, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThea S. Thorsen is Associate Professor of Classics at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eOvid's Early Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2014), contributing sole editor of \u003cem\u003eCambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 2013), contributing co-editor of \u003cem\u003eDynamics of Ancient Prose\u003c\/em\u003e (de\u003cbr\u003eGruyter, 2018), and editor of \u003cem\u003eGreek and Roman Games in the Computer Age\u003c\/em\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen 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\u003cbr\u003efollowing relevant volumes for OUP: \u003cem\u003eA Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), \u003cem\u003eGeneric Enrichment in Vergil and Horace\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eLiving Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2009), (with Amanda Wrigley), \u003cem\u003eLouis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays [jointly with Amanda Wrigley]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e(OUP, 2013), and (joint ed. with Lorna Hardwick) Classics in the Modern World: A 'Democratic Turn'?\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40364678643827,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":224.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d22d8bac-535e-470b-be20-326704d953a3.jpg?v=1660664763","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/roman-receptions-of-sappho-9780198829430","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}