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Sappho's Legacy

Author : Marina Karides
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438483061

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Sappho's Legacy by Marina Karides Pdf

Winner of the 2023 Gourmand Cookbook Award for Greece in the Women Category Imaginatively interweaving literatures across a variety of subjects, Sappho's Legacy identifies the crucial role that islands and Greek economic culture play in teaching about capitalism's failures and alternatives. Marina Karides delivers a historical and ethnographic account of food cooperatives and microenterprises on the Greek island of Lesvos following the 2008 financial crisis to reveal the success stories of grassroots, traditional, and community-centered economics organized by people marginalized on the basis of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Karides offers hope to others who are working against the tide of neoliberalism and heteropatriarchy to develop alternative or convivial economic practices that serve communities by providing a trail of rhythms from ancient times to the present that showcase Greece's historical resistance.

Entering Sappho

Author : Sarah Dowling
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770566514

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Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling Pdf

An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick, wet bush. Can Sappho’s breathless eroticism tell us anything about settlement—about why we’re here in front of this sign? Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveying a century in reverse. This town is one of many with a classical name. Take it as a symbol: perhaps in a place that no longer exists, another kind of future might be possible.

Sappho and her influence

Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547094999

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Sappho and her influence by David M. Robinson Pdf

"Sappho and her influence" by David Moore Robinson is a book that aims to look at one of the most enigmatic but important figures in history, particularly feminist history. Sappho was a poet who would never know the influence her work would have on future generations. Thanks to Robinsons, however, the rest of the world can see how important of a figure she truly was and is.

The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Author : Sappho
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547023951

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The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho Pdf

The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English is a collection of sensual poems by Sappho, an Archaic Greek poet known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music.

Roman Receptions of Sappho

Author : Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192564818

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Roman Receptions of Sappho by Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison Pdf

Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho's poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho's legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho's longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho's Roman reception, which is the aim of Roman Receptions of Sappho that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial.

The Sappho Companion

Author : Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781446413760

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The Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds Pdf

Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story and her sexuality.This remarkable anthology brilliantly displays the way different periods have taken up Sappho's haunting story bringing together many different kinds of work. We see her image change, re-created in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Ruth Padel and Jeanette Winterson.

Victorian Sappho

Author : Yopie Prins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691222158

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Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins Pdf

What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. Prins reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets--male and female, famous and forgotten--who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England. Prins explores the relations between classical philology and Victorian poetics, the tropes of lesbian writing, the aesthetics of meter, and nineteenth-century personifications of the "Poetess." as current scholarship on Sappho and her afterlife. Offering a history and theory of lyric as a gendered literary form, the book is an exciting and original contribution to Victorian studies, classical studies, comparative literature, and women's studies.

Sappho in Early Modern England

Author : Harriette Andreadis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226020088

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Sappho in Early Modern England by Harriette Andreadis Pdf

In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses in both literary and extraliterary texts began to form a lexicon of female intimacy. Looking at accounts of non-normative female sexualities in travel narratives, anatomies, and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy who did not wish to identify themselves as sexually transgressive developed new vocabularies to describe their desires; women that we might call bisexual or lesbian, referred to in their day as tribades, fricatrices, or "rubsters," emerged in erotic discourses that allowed them to acknowledge their sexuality and still evade disapproval.

Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation

Author : Henry Thornton Wharton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547025900

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Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation by Henry Thornton Wharton Pdf

This book presents beautiful Victorian-era translations of Sapho's work. In the preface, the author gives his notes on how important was the role of the Greek poet and philosopher on the establishment of modern culture. The book also contains an intro to the biography of Sapho based on her memoirs.

The Lesbian Lyre

Author : Jeffrey M. Duban
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781905570805

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The Lesbian Lyre by Jeffrey M. Duban Pdf

Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary. Shrouded in mystery, she is nonetheless repeatedly translated and discussed – no, appropriated – by all. Sappho has most recently undergone a variety of treatments by agenda-driven scholars and so-called poet-translators with little or no knowledge of Greek. Classicist-translator Jeffrey Duban debunks the postmodernist scholarship by which Sappho is interpreted today and offers translations reflecting the charm and elegant simplicity of the originals. Duban provides a reader-friendly overview of Sappho’s times and themes, exploring her eroticism and Greek homosexuality overall. He introduces us to Sappho’s highly cultured island home, to its lyre-accompanied musical legends, and to the fabled beauty of Lesbian women. Not least, he emphasizes the proximity of Lesbos to Troy, making the translation and enjoyment of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey a further focus. More than anything else, argues Duban, it is free verse and its rampant legacy – and no two persons more than Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound – that bear responsibility for the ruin of today’s classics in translation, to say nothing of poetry in the twentieth century. Beyond matters of reflection for classicists, Duban provides a far-ranging beginner’s guide to classical literature, with forays into Spenser and Milton, and into the colonial impulse of Virgil, Spenser, and the West at large.

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

Author : P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107189058

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The Cambridge Companion to Sappho by P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly Pdf

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 Complete Poems of Sappho

Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0834822008

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The Complete Poems of Sappho by Willis Barnstone Pdf

Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English. In the past, translators have taken two basic approaches to Sappho: either very literally translating only the words in the fragments, or taking the liberty of reconstructing the missing parts. Willis Barnstone has taken a middle course, in which he remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious. This edition includes extensive notes and a special section of "Testimonia": appreciations of Sappho in the words of ancient writers from Plato to Plutarch. Also included are a glossary of all the figures mentioned in the poems, and suggestions for further reading.

Sappho's Leap

Author : Erica Jong
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480438880

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Sappho's Leap by Erica Jong Pdf

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Fear of Flying brings the seductive Greek poet to life in this “enormously entertaining” tale (Booklist). As she stands poised at the edge of a precipice in the shadow of the sanctuary of Apollo, the greatest love poet who ever was or ever will be recalls the eventful fifty years that have led her to this moment. It was love that seduced her, at age sixteen, into an ill-fated plot with the poet Alcaeus to depose the despot of the island of Lesbos. It was love that made her trade the unwanted marriage bed of an old, despised, and drunken husband for a seemingly endless series of lovers, both male and female. For Sappho, life has always been a banquet to be savored to the fullest, a strange and sensual odyssey that has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world. Devoted to the goddess Aphrodite and granted the gift of immortal song, she has followed her magnificent destiny from Delphi to Egypt, to the land of the Amazons, the realm of the centaurs, and into the stygian depths of Hades itself, often in the company of her companion and friend, the fabulist slave Aesop. Through every grand affair and every wild adventure, she has remained forever true to her heart, her passion, and herself, right up to this, the end of everything. Combining evocative and realistic detail with unabashedly outrageous invention, Erica Jong’s Sappho’s Leap is a flawless gem of historical fiction boldly imagined by one of America’s most enthralling storytellers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393242249

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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman Pdf

An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life, and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems. For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world. The poems of Sappho reveal a remarkable woman who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos during the vibrant age of the birth of western science, art, and philosophy. Sappho was the daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother, a lover of women, and one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Nonetheless, although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of the ancient women they celebrate has never been told for a general audience. Searching for Sappho is the exciting tale of the rediscovery of Sappho’s poetry and of the woman and world they reveal.

Poems of Sappho

Author : Sappho,John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.