III.E.1990.001 | Sappho’s Splintered Tongue


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O Higgins, Dolores
“Sappho’s Splintered Tongue: Silence in Sappho 31 and Catullus 51” in American journal of philology 111.2 (1990), 156–167.
DOI: 10.2307/294971
ISSN: 0002-9475
Notes from Source: A study considers the impact of Lesbia on Sappho and Catullus, focusing especially on the disturbing and memorable image of the “broken” tongue in Sappho 31, and the relative seriousness of Sappho’s “fracture” and Catullus’ sluggish tongue.
Further Notes: Place: Baltimore Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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