The Cambridge companion to Sappho / edited by P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol, Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finglass, Patrick, 1979- editor.

Kelly, Adrian, 1972- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sappho--Criticism and interpretation.

Sappho.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 553 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Plates

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Contexts

1 Sappho's Lives

2 Sappho's Lesbos

3 Sappho and Sexuality

4 Sappho and Epic

5 Sappho and Alcaeus

6 Sappho and Archaic Greek Song Culture

Part II: Poetics

7 Sappho and Genre

8 Performing Sappho

9 Sappho's Metres and Music

10 Sappho's Dialect

11 Sappho's Poetic Language

12 Sappho's Personal Poetry

13 Sappho's Lyric Sensibility

14 Myth in Sappho

15 The Gods in Sappho

Part III: Transmission

16 The Alexandrian Edition of Sappho

17 Sappho on the Papyri

18 Editions of Sappho since the Renaissance

Part IV: Receptions

19 Sappho in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greek Literature

20 Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry

21 Sappho at Rome

22 Sappho in Imperial Greek Literature

23 Sappho at Byzantium

24 Early Modern Sapphos in France and England

25 Early Modern and Modern German, Italian, and Spanish Sapphos

26 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States

27 Sappho and Modern Greece

28 Sappho in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Anglophone Receptions

29 Sappho in Australia and New Zealand

30 Sappho in Latin America

31 Sappho in Hebrew Literature

32 Sappho in India

33 Sappho in China and Japan

Bibliography

General Index

Index to the Reception of Sappho.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781108100175

1108100171

9781108102971

1108102972

9781316986974

1316986977

OCLC:

1245247281