Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception (Hellenic Studies Series) - Softcover

Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674026861 ISBN 13: 9780674026865

Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008

Synopsis

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, Dimitrios 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 symposion, 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, and anthropology, Sappho in the Making articulates a new methodological Problematik on the reception of archaic Greek socioaesthetic cultures.

About this title

About the Author:

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis is a former Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and a recipient of the Berlin Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0674026861
• ISBN 13: 9780674026865
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 442