TY - BOOK ID - 78642922 TI - Sappho PY - 2015 SN - 0755695194 0857726617 9780857726612 0857739859 9780857739858 1784533602 9781784533601 9781784533618 1784533610 PB - London : I.B. Tauris, DB - UniCat KW - Poets, Greek. KW - Literary studies: classical, early & medieval. KW - Sappho KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Greek poets KW - Sapfo KW - Sapfo van Lesbos KW - Sappho van Lesbos KW - Sapho KW - Safo KW - Sapʻo KW - Saffo KW - Sapphus KW - Сафо KW - سيفو KW - Safona KW - Σαπφῶ KW - Ψάπφω KW - Psappho UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78642922 AB - "Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her as 'violet, pure, honey-smiling Sappho'; and that the rhetorician and philosopher Maximus of Tyre saw her, perhaps less enthusiastically, as 'small and dark'. We also know that her 7th/6th century BCE island of Lesbos was riven by tyrannical and aristocratic factionalism and that she was probably exiled to Sicily. Much of the rest is speculative. DuBois suggests that the value of Sappho lies elsewhere: in her remarkable verse, and in the poet's reception - one of the richest of any figure from antiquity. Offering nuanced readings of the poems, written in an archaic Aeolic dialect, DuBois skillfully draws out their sharp images and rhythmic melody. She further discusses the exciting discovery of a new verse fragment in 2004, and the ways in which Sappho influenced Catullus, Horace and Ovid, as well as later writers and painters."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -