
Reading Sappho
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A legendary literary figure, Sappho has attracted readers, critics, and biographers ever since she composed poems on the island of Lesbos at the close of the seventh century B.C. Bringing together some of the best recent criticism on the subject, this volume, together with Re-Reading Sappho, represents the first anthology of Sappho scholarship, drawing attention to Sappho's importance as a poet and reflecting the diversity of critical approaches in classical and literary scholarship during the last several decades.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.
Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. Language and Literary Context
- ONE. Sappho's Amatory Language
- TWO. Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho
- THREE. Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: "Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric
- FOUR. Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry
- PART II. Homer and the Oral Tradition
- FIVE. Sappho and Helen
- SIX. Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's Lyrics
- PART III. Ritual and Social Context
- SEVEN. Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood
- EIGHT. Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality
- NINE. Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho
- TEN. Who Sang Sappho's Songs?
- PART IV. Women's Erotics
- ELEVEN. Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why is Sappho a Woman?
- TWELVE. Sappho's Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man
- THIRTEEN. The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho 1
- FOURTEEN. Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in the Poetry of Sappho
- FIFTEEN. Sappho and the Other Woman
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
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