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The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity and prominent lesbian voice.

P. J. Finglass (Edited by), Adrian Kelly (Edited by)

9781316638774, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 April 2021

384 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.97 kg

'Greater appreciation for Sappho's poems, increasing acceptance of lesbianism, poetic modernism, second-wave feminism, and feminist scholarship all contribute to a new view of her as poet and musician, yielding new fictions, and new translations…' Eva Stehle, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an up-to-date survey of this remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic corpus has been significantly expanded in recent years thanks to the discovery of new papyrus sources. Containing an introduction, prologue and thirty-three chapters, the book examines Sappho's historical, social, and literary contexts, the nature of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss, and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan. All Greek is translated, making the volume accessible to everyone interested in one of the most significant creative artists of all time.

Introduction P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly
Part I. Contexts: 1. Sappho's lives Maarit Kivilo
2. Sappho's Lesbos Rosalind Thomas
3. Sappho and sexuality Melissa Mueller
4. Sappho and epic Adrian Kelly
5. Sappho and Alcaeus Wolfgang Rösler
6. Sappho and archaic Greek song culture Deborah Steiner
Part II. Poetics: 7. Sappho and genre Leslie Kurke
8. Performing Sappho Franco Ferrari
9. Sappho's metres and music Luigi Battezzato
10. Sappho's dialect Olga Tribulato
11. Sappho's poetic language Vanessa Cazzato
12. Sappho's personal poetry André Lardinois
13. Sappho's lyric sensibility Alex Purves
14. Myth in Sappho Ruth Scodel
15. The gods in Sappho Laura Swift
Part III. Transmission: 16. The Alexandrian edition of Sappho Lucia Prauscello
17. Sappho on the papyri P. J. Finglass
18. Editions of Sappho since the Renaissance P. J. Finglass
Part IV. Receptions: 19. Sappho in fifth- and fourth-century Greek literature Lyndsay Coo
20. Sappho and Hellenistic poetry Richard Hunter
21. Sappho at Rome Llewelyn Morgan
22. Sappho in imperial Greek literature Ewen Bowie
23. Sappho at Byzantium Filippomaria Pontani
24. Early modern Sapphos in France and England Stuart Gillespie
25. Early modern and modern German, Italian, and Spanish Sapphos Cecilia Piantanida
26. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States Marguerite Johnson
27. Sappho and modern Greece Dimitrios Kargiotis
28. Sappho in the twentieth century and beyond: anglophone receptions Barbara Goff and Katherine Harloe
29. Sappho in Australia and New Zealand Marguerite Johnson
30. Sappho in Latin America Robert De Brose
31. Sappho in Hebrew literature Adriana X. Jacobs
32. Sappho in India Ruth Vanita
33. Sappho in China and Japan Jingling Chen
List of works cited
Index of passages discussed
Index of subjects
Index of Greek.

Subject Areas: Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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