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Sappho - săfˈō, fl. early 6th cent. b.c., greatest of the early Greek lyric poets (Plato calls her "the tenth Muse"), b. Mytilene on Lesbos. Facts about her life are scant. She was an aristocrat, who wrote poetry for her circle of friends, mostly but not exclusively women. She may have had a daughter. The term lesbian (see homosexuality), her presumed sexual

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Sappho and Her Influence » Read Now
by David M. Robinson. 272 pgs.

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...following lovers of Greek literature, and of Sappho in particular, have kindly consented to act...DR. HUGH H. YOUNG PLATE 1. ALMA TADEMAS SAPPHO In the Walters Art Gallery...
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Poems and Fragments » Read Now
by Sappho, Stanley Lombardo, Susan Warden. 68 pgs.

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Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs: Configurations of Female and Male in Ancient Greek Lyric » Read Now
by Lyn Hatherly Wilson. 232 pgs.

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The woman-made work described in Sappho's songs has been discussed and analysed for centuries. In Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs , late twentieth century theories of feminism, psychoanalysis and literary criticism are applied to Sappho's lyrics for the first time. The study recreates and examines a...
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The woman-made work described in Sappho's songs has been discussed and analysed for centuries. In Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs , late twentieth century theories of feminism, psychoanalysis and literary criticism are applied to Sappho's lyrics for the first time. The study recreates and examines a voice that sings of the dreams and interactions of women, tells of the bodies, rhythms and desires of the women of Sappho's circle. At the same time it offers an analysis of sexual difference, comparing the homoerotic lyrics of male poets of that era to those of Sappho.
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Women's History and Ancient History ("Public Occasion and Private Passion in the Lyrics of Sappho of Lesbos") » Read Now
by Sarah B. Pomeroy. 318 pgs.

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Greek Civilization (Chap. Five "Sappho of Lesbos, Tenth of the Muses") » Read Now
by Andre Bonnard, A. Lytton Sells. 202 pgs.

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...London and New York, 1931. Vol. II. For Chapter V Sappho : Lyra Graeca . . . , edited and translated by J. M. Edmonds...IV Archilochus, Poet and Citizen 72 V Sappho of...
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Women's Roles in Ancient Civilizations: A Reference Guide ("Women's Voices: Sappho and Other Female Poets" begins on p. 245) » Read Now
by Bella Vivante. 392 pgs.

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Knowledge about the roles of women in ancient civilizations has been limited to traditionally held notions, but recent discoveries and research have led to exciting insights into the great variety of ways in which women contributed to ancient cultures. This reference work, designed for student...
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Knowledge about the roles of women in ancient civilizations has been limited to traditionally held notions, but recent discoveries and research have led to exciting insights into the great variety of ways in which women contributed to ancient cultures. This reference work, designed for student research, features lengthy essays and a wealth of new information about women's roles in twelve ancient civilizations around the world--China, India, Japan, Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, West Africa, Greece, Rome, the Maya, the Inca, and Native North America.
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Greek Poetry for Everyman ("Sappho of Mytilene" begins on p. 243) » Read Now
by F. L. Lucas. 414 pgs.

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...ALCAEUS 242 SAPPHO 243 SOLON 246...594 Alcaeus b. c. 620 Sappho c. 610-565 Peisistratus tyrant...the sheer white Leucadian headland of Sapphos legendary leap; past the...
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Lives in Education: A Narrative of People and Ideas ("Sappho (c. 630-c. 572 B.C.)" begins on p. 6) » Read Now
by L. Glenn Smith, Joan K. Smith, Francis Mitchael Perko. 460 pgs.

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...Acknowledgments Mary Barnard, Sappho: A New Translation , one poem #86. Copyright...California Press. Beram Salvatvala, Sappho of Lesbos: Her Works Restored--A...
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New Chapters in the History of Greek Literature. Third Series: Some Recent Discoveries in Greek Poetry and Prose of the Classical and Later Periods ("Sappho" begins on p. 2) » Read Now
by J. U. Powell. 270 pgs.

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...EARLY LYRIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY Sappho, Alcaeus, Corinna, Ibycus, Pindar...of other forms, and for writers like Sappho and Alcaeus, represented by no new form...personality...
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Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role, and Social Function ("The 'Circle' of Sappho" begins on p. 210) » Read Now
by Claude Calame, Derek Collins, Janice Orion. 281 pgs.

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Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than just literary texts, and that they functioned mainly as initiatory rituals in cult practices, permitting the girls to achieve the stature of womanhood.
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The Thinker as Artist: From Homer to Plato & Aristotle (Chap. II "Sappho: On the Poems") » Read Now
by George Anastaplo. 410 pgs.

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In an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and...
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In an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and how they "talk" among themselves across the centuries. In doing so, he does not presume to repeat the many fine things said about these and like authors, but rather he discusses what he himself has noticed about them, text by text.
Drawing upon a series of classical authors ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato and Aristotle, Anastaplo examines issues relating to chance, art, nature, and divinity present in the artful works of philosophers and other thinkers.
As he has done in his earlier work, Anastaplo mines the great texts to help us discover who we are and what we should be. Some of the works used are familiar, others were once better known than they are now. The approach to all of them is freshand provocative, demonstrating the value of such texts in showing the reader what to look for and how to talk about matters that have always engaged thoughtful human beings.
These imaginative yet disciplined discussions of important texts of ancient Greek thought and of Raphael's The School of Athens should appeal to both the specialist and the general reader.
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Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality ("Sappho's Aphrodite" begins on p. 60) » Read Now
by Bruce S. Thornton. 288 pgs.

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Bruce Thornton's sweeping and comprehensive account of ancient sexuality is refreshingly free of currently fashionable jargon. He challenges the distortions of much recent scholarship on Greek sexuality and their attitudes to family, love and sex.
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Metaphorical "Indiscretion" and Literary Survival in Swinburne's "Anactoria," in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Includes discussion of Sappho) » Read Now
by Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor. 18 pgs.

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...religious ideologies, and about the status of Sappho as a historical and literary figure whom...metaphor and metaphoric procedures. "I Sappho" is many things in this poem...
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Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Chap. 8 "Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language Love") » Read Now
by Anna Livia, Kira Hall. 460 pgs.

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Queerly Phrased is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and gay studies, the contributors draw on traditional models of language anaylsis of...
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Queerly Phrased is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and gay studies, the contributors draw on traditional models of language anaylsis of well as recent developments in gender theory to show how language plays a crucial role in the creation of culture and its representation.
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Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Bodies of Antiquity (Chap. 2 "'The Mother of the Argument': Eros and the Body in Sappho and Plato's Phaedrus") » Read Now
by Maria Wyke. 291 pgs.

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Parchments of Gender builds up an important source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. The distinguished contributors pursue the central theme of the body's relation to gender, covering the ancient communities of Greece, Rome, and Judaea to argue that...
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Parchments of Gender builds up an important source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. The distinguished contributors pursue the central theme of the body's relation to gender, covering the ancient communities of Greece, Rome, and Judaea to argue that the body is culturally constructed and not a sign of what is natural. The essays further demonstrate the central role of antiquity in the developing cultural formation of the gendered body as a concept, a practice, and an experience in modern societies.
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Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides (Chap. V "Sappho") » Read Now
by C. M. Bowra. 490 pgs.

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