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Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus
Author: Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-09-23
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 3110630397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The poetry of the archaic poets of Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, has been imperfectly and poorly transmitted either in book fragments or in later ragged papyri, so that new attempts of interpretation will always be required, especially when new research tools and methods have appeared in classical scholarship.The book consists of 14 articles by the author, which present and deal with diverse problems of the two poets of Lesbos. Various questions on already transmitted poems, different readings, reconstructions, and interpretations of the new finds are proposed, but, most importantly, new approaches in general topics, such as the division of Sappho’s work in Books, the logic leading to this division, the order of these Books, the contents of each of them, the interpretation of the surviving fragments, often quite different than before. A feature that characterizes the old-age poetry of Sappho is her anxiety about the posthumous fate of her poetry and her hope that Kleïs, her only daughter, will ensure its dissemination. Finally, the author investigates the communal festival of Hera in Lesbos, a festival performed in common with Zeus and Dionysus, the so-called “Lesbian Triad”. The festival is specified as a welcome to the season of spring at the time of the vernal equinox. Also, the location of the temenos of Hera is investigated, close to Pyrrha of Lesbos, which was the site of Alcaeus’ second exile.
The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
Author: P. J. Finglass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 1107189055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context 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.
The Poems of Sappho
Sappho
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0520272935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct—the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.
The Poems of Sappho
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Published: 2021-10-20
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 3985941238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Poems of Sappho Sappho - Sappho is widely recognized as one of the great poets of world literature, an author whose works have caused her readers to repeat in many different forms Strabo's amazed epithet when he wrote that she could only be called "a marvel."The reception of Sappho's poetry even through the twentieth century offers a case study of the conflicts induced by the sexual preferences she seemingly alludes to in her verse.Little is known with certainty about the life of Sappho, or Psappha in her native Aeolic dialect. She was born probably about 620 B.C. to an aristocratic family on the island of Lesbos during a great cultural flowering in the area.In antiquity Sappho was regularly counted among the greatest of poets and was often referred to as "the Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet.Praised for their simplicity and sincerity, the poems of Sappho evoke powerful and memorable images through her focus on emotion and individualism that foreshadows modern poetry.
Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1351239082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and Homer the supreme poets.
Three Archaic Poets
Author: Anne Pippin Burnett
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of early Greek lyric provides portraits of Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho and their poetry. It looks at their social settings, and their purposes within it.
Brill's Companion to Theocritus
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-16
Total Pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9004466711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
The Poems of Sappho
