Sappho in the making : the early reception / Dimitrios Yatromanolakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios.

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 28.

Hellenic studies ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sappho--Appreciation.

Sappho.

Sappho--Criticism and interpretation.

Sappho--In art.

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Lesbians--Greece.

Lesbians.

Women and literature--Greece--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Lesbos (Greece : Municipality)--Antiquities.

Lesbos (Greece : Municipality).

Greece.

Physical Description:

xx, 442 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the "reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Yatromanolakis investigates visual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronic multilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making of "Sappho" in the late archaic, classical, and early Hellenistic periods. Offering a systematic analysis of the contextual cues provided by vase paintings and focusing on the sociocultural institution of the symposium, this book explores the intricate modes of the assimilation of Sappho's poetry into diverse social, aesthetic, and performative contexts. Drawing on a number of disciplines, including archaeology, papyrology, epigraphy, and anthropology, Sappho in the Making articulates a new methodological and theoretical Problematik on the reception of archaic Greek socioaesthetic cultures.

Contents:

An anthropology of reception

Ethnographic archives of vraisemblance in attic ceramics

The anthropology of ancient reception: the late archaic and classical periods

Traditions in flux

In search of Sappho's companions: anthropological fieldwork on socioaesthetic cultures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-426) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780674026865

0674026861

OCLC:

171614665