Screen LibraryThe Cambridge companion to Sappho /
"No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity has, down the centuries, ensured a continuing fascination with her work. The ancient edition of her poems, which filled probably nine books and thus over 10,000 lines, d...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| Summary: |
"No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity has, down the centuries, ensured a continuing fascination with her work. The ancient edition of her poems, which filled probably nine books and thus over 10,000 lines, did not survive; but the fragments of those poems which have been preserved, both as quotations in authors whose works did outlast antiquity, and on ancient papyrus manuscripts recovered from the sands of Egypt, offer many glimpses of her poetic brilliance"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxxii, 553 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-546) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781316638774 1316638774 9781107189058 1107189055 |
| Index Number: | PA4409 |
| CLC: | I545.072 |
| Call Number: | I545.072/C178-1 |
| Contents: |
Contexts -- Sappho's Lives / Sappho's Lesbos / Sappho And Sexuality / Sappho And Epic / Sappho And Alcaeus / Sappho And Archaic Greek Song Culture / Poetics -- Sappho And Genre / Performing Sappho / Sappho's Metres And Music / Sappho's Dialect / Sappho's Poetic Language / Sappho's Personal Poetry / Sappho's Lyric Sensibility / Myth In Sappho / The Gods In Sappho / Transmission -- The Alexandrian Edition Of Sappho / Sappho On The Papyri / Editions Of Sappho Since The Renaissance / Receptions -- Sappho In Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greek Literature / Sappho And Hellenistic Poetry / Sappho At Rome / Sappho In Imperial Greek Literature / Sappho At Byzantium / Early Modern Sapphos In France And England / Early Modern And Modern German, Italian, And Spanish Sapphos / Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sapphos In France, England, And The United States / Sappho And Modern Greece / Sappho In The Twentieth Century And Beyond: Anglophone Receptions / Sappho In Australia And New Zealand / Sappho In Latin America / Sappho In Hebrew Literature / Sappho In India / Sappho In China And Japan / |