Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid.
(2019)
Book Chapter
Ingleheart, J. (2019). Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid. In S. Harrison, & T. Thorsen (Eds.), Roman Receptions of Sappho (205-225). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829430.001.0001
This chapter argues that the representation of Sappho the poet appears as a coherent portrait in the poetry of Ovid, and that this portrait closely resembles that of Ovid himself. This is so even when Heroides 15, also known as Epistula Sapphus, wher... Read More about Vates Lesbia: images of Sappho in the poetry of Ovid..