Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches (Classics and Contemporary Thought) - Hardcover

Greene, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520201957 ISBN 13: 9780520201958

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

Essays that aim to draw attention to Sappho's importance as a poet and to offer a sense of the lively debate and competiting critical positions within Sappho studies. Contents include: Sappho's amatory language ( Giuliana Lanata ); Eros and incantation: Sappho and oral poetry ( Charles Segal ); Sappho and Helen ( Page duBois ); Sappho and social context ( Judith Hallett ); Sappho's gaze: fantasies of a goddess and young man ( Eva Stehle ); Apostrophe and women's erotics in the poetry of Sappho ( Ellen Greene ).

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Greene is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma.

Review:

"Reflects some of the currents in classics scholarship as well as gender theory, locating Sappho at the intersection of varieties of critical thought in the late 20th century." -- R. Nadelhaft, Choice

"[Reading Sappho and Re-Reading Sappho are] the first anthologies of scholarship on Sappho. . . . They constitute an essential advance in Sappho scholarship, engage provocatively with critical debates about gender, contextualization and reception, and confirm the excellence of the series Classics and Contemporary Thought." -- Helen Morales, Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520201957
• ISBN 13: 9780520201958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 303