Sappho And The Greek Lyric Poets

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014371465

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Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets by Anonim Pdf

Willis Barnstone has augmented his widely used anthology of the Greek lyric poets with eleven newly attributed Sappho poems, making this the most complete offering of Sappho in English. Two new sections -- "Sources and Notes" and "Sappho: Her Life and Poems" -- provide the student with the classical sources and an appraisal of this greatest of Western women poets. Barnstone's lucid, elegant translations include a representative sampling of all the significant Greek lyric poets, from Archilochus, in the seventh century B.C., through Pindar ("prince of choral poets") and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. William McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the Greek lyric. Barnstone introduces each poet with a brief biographical and literary sketch. The critical apparatus includes a glossary, index, bibliography, and concordance. Willis Barnstone is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Indiana University. He is co-editor of A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, and has translated poetry of Mao Zedong, Antonio Machado, and St. John of the Cross.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351239097

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Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926) by Sappho Pdf

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.

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520910966

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Sappho's Lyre by Diane J. Rayor Pdf

Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets—the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520223128

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Sappho by Sappho Pdf

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.

Author : Sappho,John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486817279

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Poems of Sappho by Sappho,John Maxwell Edmonds Pdf

"The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.

Author : Sappho,Mary Barnard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520272934

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Sappho by Sappho,Mary Barnard Pdf

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.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9783985941230

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The Poems of Sappho by Sappho Pdf

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.

Author : Sappho Of Lesbos,Sasha Newborn
Publisher : Supplement Editions
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0942208404

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Supplement Edition: Sappho, the Poems by Sappho Of Lesbos,Sasha Newborn Pdf

Sappho was universally recognized by the ancients as the greatest lyric poet. Her lines are spare, bare, and subtle, or as Mosas Hadas put it, "it is ordinary language raised to its highest potential." Alongside the odes to Olympic athletes of Pindar, the wisdom verse of Hesiod, or the epic lays of Homer, Sappho's highly personal poems sound quite modern to our ears. Only a few fragments of her work has survived the centuries, most of them more than one line in length are in this book. The Supplement Edition coordinates with the student text edition, and includes the same poems (www.createspace.com/4185675). This dialogue-style teaching supplement, the Supplement Edition: Sappho: The Poems is arranged by question and answers. Table of Contents Preface for teachers Who was Sappho? Where did Sappho live? Who was in Sappho's family? Map of Aeolian Greek territory What do we know of Sappho's poetry? What was Sappho's school like? What was Sappho's sexual orientation? What makes Sappho's poetry special? What did the ancients think of Sappho? What was the poetry tradition in Lesbos? What was Greek poetry like? What was unique about the Aeolian dialect? What techniques does Sappho use? What was Lesbos culture like What role did Greek women play socially? What about particular poems? BB11. Alkaios: Violet-haired, pure BB12. Ah, the sweet apple that reddens at the tip BB13. Dika, braid your lovely hair BB14. Aphrodite on your shining throne BB21. Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters BB22. The full wine bowl already had BB23. Lucky bridegroom, your wedding day has come BB23. The doorkeeper to the bridal chamber has feet BB24. A messenger came running on powerful legs BB25. Give up groom, we'll camp outside your door BB26. Indeed the stars anywhere near her undisguised brilliance; BB27. You cam. And you did well to come BB28. To me he looks godlike BB30. Anaktoria: Some prize the cavalry, while others favor BB31. Love now shakes my limbs and BB32. Atthis: Even in distant Sardis BB34. So, I'll never see Atthis again BB35. Leave Crete, and come to me here BB36. Mermaids and brine-born Aphrodite, please BB38. Hera, I pray you, may you BB40. I have a little daughter who is like BB41. When our girls were young BB42. Girlhood, girlhood, when you left me BB46. Gongyla, this is surely a sign What is the controversy about Sappho? Who opposed Sappho and why? Did Sappho leap for love? Whom did Sappho influence? What have the modern critics said? What problems in translating Sappho? What English translations of Sappho? What is Sappho's publication history? Bibliography Glossary

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Lesbos (Greece : Municipality)
ISBN : PSU:000033946634

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The Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho Pdf

Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections. Distinguished poet and lecturer Paul Roche's translation of The Love Songs of Sappho is enhanced with his brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho," as well as a lucid historical introduction by celebrated feminist and classicist Page duBois.

Author : M. L. West
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199540396

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Greek Lyric Poetry by M. L. West Pdf

The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015032636329

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Poems by Sappho Pdf

Author : Sappho,Edwin Marion Cox
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547023067

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The Poems of Sappho by Sappho,Edwin Marion Cox Pdf

Sappho was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. This volume which presents all the surviving poetry of Sappho, known for her lyrical poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Lesbos (Greece : Municipality)
ISBN : UOM:39015000530769

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Lyrics in the Original Greek by Sappho Pdf

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 142095833X

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The Poems of Sappho and Others by Sappho Pdf

The nine lyric poets were a canon of ancient Greek composers esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study. The most famous of which is probably Sappho, who was born sometime between 630 and 612 BC on the Greek island of Lesbos. The famous Library of Alexandria collected Sappho's poems into nine books, unfortunately these editions have been lost. Today only fragments of the poetess' work remains. These fragments are collected together here in this volume of "The Poems of Sappho and Others" along with fragments of the other Greek monodist lyric poets contemporary to Sappho. Altogether we find the poetry of Alcaeus, Pythermus, Anacreon, Anacreontea, Corrina, Telesilla, Praxilla, Erinna as well as Sappho in this volume of poetry translated by Walter Petersen. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0872205916

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Poems and Fragments by Sappho Pdf

Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'