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These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.
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"Nei secoli l'immagine di Saffo si è progressivamente proiettata nel mito, assurgendo, secondo le epoche, a modello di diversi fermenti culturali, come i movimenti femministi, o le correnti poetiche lesbiche, particolarmente attive negli ultimi due secoli. Tra queste mode, la ricerca filologica ha continuato ad arricchirsi grazie alle scoperte papiracee, ma non ha potuto prescindere dalle idee maturate nei diversi ambiti letterari e culturali. L'indagine filologica, pertanto, non ha potuto non contaminarsi e se, da un lato, si è arricchita delle diverse problematiche avanzate dai vari movimenti culturali, dall'altro è risultata ingabbiata da queste ricerche. Così Saffo ha attraversato le mode dell'Ottocento e le prime lotte femministe, e ha interessato i movimenti di liberazione sessuale nati nel '68 e attivi fino ai nostri giorni, come segno di un'identità di genere liberamente espressa in una società maschilista e sessualmente repressa. L'autore del presente volume vuo le rileggere i testi antichi in una prospettiva diversa: Saffo era leader di un gruppo di donne con le quali condivideva una vita di relazione intensa e soprattutto con le quali coltivava vari tipi di arte, dal canto alla danza. Saffo chiama la sua casa 'casa delle serve delle Muse': perché vi si praticavano le arti che avrebbero consentito loro di aspirare all'eternità, al ricordo dei posteri, alla sopravvivenza presso le generazioni future. Le donne che circolavano intorno a Saffo erano delle hetairai, donne colte e raffinate, frequentatrici degli uomini, con i quali potevano intrattenere dialoghi alla pari. L'opera della poetessa acquista un nuovo significato, se letta in questa chiave e soprattutto se si libera il suo mito dalle sedimentazioni di interpretazioni della sua sessualità. Lo studio è organizzato in cinque capitoli. Nel primo l'autore spiega le ragioni di determinate prese di posizione e di interpretazioni circa la poesia e la figura di Saffo tra gli studiosi in conseguenza o in opposizione anche alle mode culturali; il secondo cerca di ricostruire la struttura e la natura del gruppo di Saffo, la 'casa delle serve delle Muse'; nel terzo si parla di Saffo come hetaira, cercando di spiegare a che cosa corrispondesse questo tipo di donna colta e raffinata ai suoi tempi, ben diverso dal significato che le fu conferito nell'Atene classica. Nel quarto capitolo si cerca di definire la figura di Saffo hetaira come erotodidaskalos, maestra di amore, cioè esperta di amore, secondo un cliché che sopravvive a lungo, anche nell'Atene classica. Nell'ultimo si parla dei culti degli dei, che segnano e spiegano lo sfondo culturale e religioso di riferimento per alcuni canti di Saffo."
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The poetry of the archaic poets of Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, has been imperfectly and poorly transmitted either in book fragments or in later ragged papyri, so that new attempts of interpretation will always be required, especially when new research tools and methods have appeared in classical scholarship.The book consists of 14 articles by the author, which present and deal with diverse problems of the two poets of Lesbos. Various questions on already transmitted poems, different readings, reconstructions, and interpretations of the new finds are proposed, but, most importantly, new approaches in general topics, such as the division of Sappho’s work in Books, the logic leading to this division, the order of these Books, the contents of each of them, the interpretation of the surviving fragments, often quite different than before. A feature that characterizes the old-age poetry of Sappho is her anxiety about the posthumous fate of her poetry and her hope that Kleïs, her only daughter, will ensure its dissemination. Finally, the author investigates the communal festival of Hera in Lesbos, a festival performed in common with Zeus and Dionysus, the so-called “Lesbian Triad”. The festival is specified as a welcome to the season of spring at the time of the vernal equinox. Also, the location of the temenos of Hera is investigated, close to Pyrrha of Lesbos, which was the site of Alcaeus’ second exile.
Sapphics. --- Sappho --- Alcaeus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Alcaeus. --- Sappho. --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism.
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Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho's poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho's legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho's longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho's Roman reception, which is the aim of Roman Receptions of Sappho that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial
Art appreciation. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Love poetry, Greek --- Love poetry, Greek. --- History and criticism. --- Sappho --- Sappho. --- Appreciation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Rome (Empire). --- Women poets --- Poets, Latin --- Latin poets --- Poetesses --- Poets, Women --- Women as poets --- Poets --- Women authors --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Sapfo --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Sapho --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho --- Rome. --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos
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Women --- Sappho --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Sapfo --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Sapho --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho --- Lesbos (Greece : Municipality) --- Lesbos Island (Greece) --- Lesvos (Greece) --- Lésvos Island (Greece) --- Metelino Island (Greece) --- Midilli Island (Greece) --- Midilli Adası (Greece) --- Midillü Island (Greece) --- Midullu Island (Greece) --- Mitilíni (Greece) --- Mitilíni Island (Greece) --- Mitylene Island (Greece) --- Mytilene Island (Greece) --- Mytilini (Greece) --- Nēsi Lesvos (Greece) --- Nisí Lésvos (Greece) --- Perifereiakí Enótita Lésvou (Greece) --- Periphereiakē Henotēta Lesvou (Greece) --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos
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