The 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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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I Contexts
- 1. Sappho's lives / Maarit Kivilo
- 2. Sappho's Lesbos / Rosalind Thomas
- 3. Sappho and sexuality / Melissa Mueller
- 4. Sappho and epic / Adrian Kelly
- 5. Sappho and Alcaeus / Wolfgang Rösler
- 6. Sappho and archaic Greek song culture / Deborah Steiner
- pt. II Poetics
- 7. Sappho and genre / Leslie Kurke
- 8. Performing Sappho / Franco Ferrari
- 9. Sappho's metres and music / Luigi Battezzato
- 10. Sappho's dialect / Olga Tribulato
- 11. Sappho's poetic language / Vanessa Cazzato
- 12. Sappho's personal poetry / Andre Lardinois
- 13. Sappho's lyric sensibility / Alex Purves
- 14. Myth in Sappho / Ruth Scodel
- 15. The gods in Sappho / Laura Swift
- pt. III Transmission
- 16. The Alexandrian edition of Sappho / Lucia Prauscello
- 17. Sappho on the papyri / P. J. Finglass
- 18. Editions of Sappho since the Renaissance / P. J. Finglass
- pt. IV Receptions
- 19. Sappho in fifth- and fourth-century Greek literature / Lyndsay Coo
- 20. Sappho and Hellenistic poetry / Richard Hunter
- 21. Sappho at Rome / Llewelyn Morgan
- 22. Sappho in imperial Greek literature / Ewen Bowie
- 23. Sappho at Byzantium / Filippomaria Pontani
- 24. Early modern Sapphos in France and England / Stuart Gillespie
- 25. Early modern and modern German, Italian, and Spanish Sapphos / Cecilia Piantanida
- 26. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States / Marguerite Johnson
- 27. Sappho and modern Greece / Dimitrios Kargiotis
- 28. Sappho in the twentieth century and beyond : Anglophone receptions / Barbara Goff and Katherine Harloe
- 29. Sappho in Australia and New Zealand / Marguerite Johnson
- 30. Sappho in Latin America / Robert de Brose
- 31. Sappho in Hebrew literature / Adriana X. Jacobs
- 32. Sappho in India / Ruth Vanita
- 33. Sappho in China and Japan / Jingling Chen.