The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
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- P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol
- Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford
- Date Published: July 2021
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316638774
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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.
Read more- Explores the life and work of the most important woman writer of the Greco-Roman world
- Takes into account recent papyrological finds which have added new poems to the corpus
- Investigates the world-wide impact of Sappho's poetry, across cultures far removed from ancient Greece in space and time
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- Winner, 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
Reviews & endorsements
‘Including a general index (in addition to the reception index) and a very useful bibliography, this volume will be indispensable for all who are interested in Sappho and her tradition and for those working on archaic Greek poetry in general … Highly recommended.’ P. Nieto, Choice Magazine
See more reviews'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
‘ a ‘friendly’ and reliable travel ‘Companion’, a well-finished and elegant publication, entirely worthy of the quality of the publisher and the series, as well as of the poet to whom it is dedicated.’ Camillo Neri, Gnomon (in Italian)
'Patrick Finglass and Adrian Kelly have mastered the task of presenting the entire knowledge of Sappho and her work in one monumental companion … The carefully edited book … will certainly be an important reference work that depicts current research trends.' Anton Bierl, Museum Helveticum (in German)
‘… indispensable for anyone who takes a professional interest in Greek, or Roman, poetry …’ Mildred Faintly, http://96thofoctober.com/
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- Date Published: July 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316638774
- length: 384 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.97kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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