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INTRODUCTION
1 Our sources, like the fragments of Sappho’s songs, are sadly worn by time. It seems however, that other women poets could have flourished contemporaneously with—as suggested by frr. 55 and 71—or prior to, Sappho.
2 Conventionally, a distinction is most commonly made between songs which were sung and accompanied by music (i.e. lyric songs accompanied by the lyre), and poems or blank verse which were spoken and unaccompanied. The lyric compositions of Sappho and her contemporaries were, it appears, originally sung/accompanied and should therefore be categorised as songs, even though we often apprehend them as poems which we read from a page.
3 While definitions of what types of ancient Greek poetry the term ‘lyric’ actually embraces do vary, in accordance with Lattimore (1971: preface iv), and Campbell (1982b: intro. xiv), I include monody, choral and iambic poetry and elegiac couplets.
4 Discussing the problematic split between ‘biological sex’ and the cultural markers of difference that come under a heading of ‘gender’, Laqueur (1990:11-12) attempts to demonstrate that ‘on the basis of historical evidence…almost everything one wants to say about sex—however sex is understood—already has in it a claim about gender’. Both sex and gender are, in this analysis, politically, historically and culturally specific and ‘the body…is so hopelessly bound to its cultural meanings as to elude unmediated access’.
5 Rhode (1990:3-5) considers that late twentieth-century western culture is based upon, and grows out of, ‘a historical tradition that ascribed overriding importance to biological explanations for differences in the sexes’ social roles and status’.
6 Some pertinent examples are: ‘Identity, in which A=A, is the most basic axiom in Aristotelian logic… In opposing a logic of identity, a logic of Being, and in advocating a “logic” of difference or becoming, Nietzsche initiated a major critical trajectory in contemporary theory. ’ ‘Saussure demonstrated that such a “logic” of difference is necessary to explain the complexity and functioning of language, and

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Publication Information: Book Title: Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs: Configurations of Female and Male in Ancient Greek Lyric. Contributors: Lyn Hatherly Wilson - author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: 202.
    
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