num_pages: 254
description: The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings. Contents Sappho's afterlife in translation ( Yopie Prins ); Silence in Sappho 31 and Catullus 51 ( Dolores O'Higgins ); Sappho in early modern a study in sexual reputation ( Hariette Andreadis ); Sappho and the rise of German nationalism ( Joan DeJean ); Sappho schoolmistress ( Holt Parker ).
language: English
title: Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission
titlecomplete: Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission (Classics and Contemporary Thought)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 18
series: Classics and Contemporary Thought
publisher: University of California Press