Full Description
This latest volume from accomplished literary critic Franco Ferrari offers extraordinary new insight into the life and works of Sappho, one of the most individualistic and evocative poets of antiquity.
Sapphos Gift: The Poet and Her Community presents the fragmentary papyrological evidence about the poems, and considers Sapphos iconography, the types of poems and their occasions, her audience, and milieu.
Important for those new to Sappho, this volume also offers fresh readings that will be of interest to scholars who are well familiar with the poems.
Contents
Preface
Translators' Preface
Chapter 1 - Song of the Headband
Chapter 2 - Exile
Chapter 3 - Sappho's School
Chapter 4 - Tales of Abandonment
Chapter 5 - The Rendering of Accounts
Chapter 6 - Contrasts
Chapter 7 - Gorgo
Chapter 8 - Iconography
Chapter 9 - Nocturnal Celebrations
Chapter 10 - Nuptial Songs
Chapter 11 - Contexts
Chapter 12 - The Grove and the Temple
Chapter 13 - To Aphrodite
Chapter 14 - "Pathography" 1:Panic
Chapter 15 - "Pathography" 2:Old Age
Bibliography
Indices
