... a conversation between philosophy, cultural analysis and gender theory. It concentrates on cultural formations, gender constructions and philosophical ruminations. It discusses Plato and Sappho, who each reflects on love and bequeaths enduring phenomenological accounts of love. An overview of the chapters...

...This chapter reviews the aspects of Plato and Sappho's reflections on love, pointing to similarities and differences between their visions of Eros. Love is a lacking and a reaching for more that mediates and moves between opposites. Diotima's love is a mediation moving between opposite terms...

...The sixth chapter offers a new reading of Catullus’s version of Sappho (Catullus 51) that shows this celebrated lyric translation to be orbiting the poles of fondness and aggression. It argues that the ambivalent passions outlined in the Latin version of Sappho’s erotic plaint voice the aggressive...

...After Harold Bruff's death in 1911, Percy's work became more focused. Over the next few years, Percy wrote a series of poems he published as a book in 1915: Sappho in Levkas and Other Poems. The poems in this book amount to an extended meditation on love, death, and loss. Bruff...

...Jerome writes of Paphos as "the city of Cyprus, famous from the songs of poets.” From Homer to Sappho, Vergil, and Claudian, Paphos was widely revered as the site of Aphrodite’s sacred precinct. This chapter explores the relationship of poetry, place, and goddess, highlighting the power...

... to experiment with representing extreme affective experiences, imaginative disembodiments, and metamorphoses, which he does not attempt elsewhere. The influence of Ovid's Sappho and the genre of female complaint can be detected in Pope's various portraits of the emotive feminine figures who occupy the cells...

...This chapter circles back to the book's beginnings with the term aoidos. It shows how women, from Sappho to Nossis, responded to the long history of the male-gendering of poetic authorship to come up with a vocabulary for women poets that commented on and subverted masculine terms...

...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...

...From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho—the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity—played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connections between operatic...

... that boasted lost matriarchies. H.D. wrote about Pausanius, Euripides, and Sappho and practiced seeing what preexisted their presence. They visited the Acropolis several times, seeking out Athena Niké. Forbidden as two women alone to go to Delphi, they went to Corfu, and H.D. saw images flash on their hotel...

... form of avuncular advice in the Homeric speeches of elders like Peleus or in the Hesiodic address to Perses; (ii) how a mimetic poem composed by Theocritus helps us to imagine the performance context of some fragments of Sappho’s “wedding poems” as epithalamia in hexameters composed...

... of the improvvisatrice, a female poetic improvisor often described as a reincarnation of Sappho, sheds new light on how improvisatory authorship gendered the creative process. The author argues that discourses surrounding improvvisatrice were used to carve out authority for opera composers even as improvisational...

... second dithyramb and Sappho fr. 31), issues are raised about the various ways in which commentaries may countenance or reject speculative restorations. Since Greek lyric poems were predominantly composed to and performed with music, a coda asks how commentaries may seek to approach the music...

...This chapter argues that the representation of Sappho the poet appears as a coherent portrait in the poetry of Ovid, and that this portrait closely resembles that of Ovid himself. This is so even when Heroides 15, also known as Epistula Sapphus, where Sappho...

...This chapter takes a new approach to the idea of ‘Sappho the schoolmistress’ by exploring the significance of Sapphic evocations in Ovidian erotodidaxis. By focusing on the figure of Sappho in Heroides 15, also known as Epistula Sapphus, this chapter argues...

...This chapter argues that Martial positions himself in relationship with his great model Catullus through a number of highly sophisticated yet ‘deformed’ allusions to Sappho. It argues further that these allusions help Martial in asserting his own, individual poetic project. The line of reasoning...

... to signify the fundamental evil of all women. The Lesbian poets Sappho and Alcaeus provide contemporary but divergent perspectives on Helen’s beauty, agency, and responsibility for the Trojan War. Ibycus uses her as a point of departure for a poem that ends up praising a very different kind of beauty...

...This chapter offers an analysis of the ways in which the language of Sappho’s poems makes use of pragmatic elements that evoke a link to an extratextual world. Through this analysis, the dominant interpretative paradigm is questioned that sees Sappho’s poetry as primarily embedded within a ritual...

... of Theocritus (7) and Sappho’s Nauos of Aphrodite (2). agenda agricultural Akkadian calendar characteristic s concept cuneiform experience feelings Greece Hittite Hurrite identical initiation initiated involvement involve isinnu koiné language months modern denominations...

... epithalamion evening star genre poetic komos paraclausithyron 10 16–19 fr 16 V torches wedding ritual 2 53 fr 104a V morning star Sappho fr 30 V animal imagery mothers 1 774–81 fr 211 M W bride epic poetry Jason 71–74 in laws 1036–89 753b doorways Hymenaeus god vase paintings fr 11...