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The Reception of the New Sappho in Latin Literature

By Llewelyn Morgan

Paper 4: The Reception of the New Sappho in Latin Literature

No sooner had new fragments of Sappho come to light, than Latinists were trying to gauge their impact on Roman poetry. This paper will assess the relevance of this new material for our understanding of Latin literature, in the process arguing that an important connection exists between Sappho’s Brothers Poem and what is arguably Horace’s greatest lyric of all, Odes 3.29.