Tag: Sappho

Free Download Page DuBois, "Sappho "
English | ISBN: 1784533602 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 250 KB
Offering nuanced readings of Sappho’s poems, written in an archaic Aeolic dialect, DuBois skillfully draws out their sharp images and rhythmic melody. She further discusses the exciting discovery of a new verse fragment in 2004, and the ways in which Sappho influenced Catullus, Horace and Ovid, as well as later writers and painters.

Free Download Lyn Hatherly Wilson, "Sappho’s Sweetbitter Songs: Configurations of Female and Male in Ancient Greek Lyric"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0415126711, 0415126703 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 3.5 mb
This study recreates and examines a voice that sings of the dreams and interactions of women and tells of the bodies, rhythms and desires of the women of Sappho’s circle.

Free Download Sappho, "Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works"
English | ISBN: 1107023599 | 2014 | 184 pages | AZW3 | 399 KB
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems, fragments, single words – and, notably, five stanzas of a poem that came to light in 2014. Also included are new additions to five fragments from the latest discovery, and a nearly complete poem published in 2004. The power of Sappho’s poetry – her direct style, rich imagery, and passion – is apparent even in these remnants. Diane Rayor’s translations of Greek poetry are graceful and poetic, modern in diction yet faithful to the originals. The full range of Sappho’s voice is heard in these poems about desire, friendship, rivalry, family, and "passion for the light of life". In the introduction and notes, internationally respected Sappho scholar André Lardinois presents plausible reconstructions of Sappho’s life and work, the importance of the recent discoveries in understanding the performance of her songs, and the story of how these fragments survived.

Free Download Les neuf vies de Sappho : Le premier écrivain est une écrivaine de Laure de Chantal
Français | 29 mars 2023 | ISBN: 2234094577 | True EPUB | 308 pages | 1.4 MB
Il y a un e à génie mais combien de fois avez-vous entendu qu’une femme était géniale ?

Free Download Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture by Ms. Barbara Jane Brickman Ph.D
English | November 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1978828268 | 246 pages | PDF | 18 Mb
An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave butch emcee introduces the sequined and feathered stars of the era’s most celebrated drag revue. For an unsettled and retrenching postwar America, these startling figures betrayed the failure of promised consensus and appeasing conformity. They could also be cruel, painful, and disciplinary jokes. It turns out that an obsession with managing gender and female sexuality after the war would hardly contain them. On the contrary, it spread their campy manifestations throughout mainstream culture.

Free Download Thea S. Thorsen, "Roman Receptions of Sappho "
English | ISBN: 0198829434 | 2019 | 480 pages | EPUB | 968 KB
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 know of. Furthermore, Sappho’s poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho’s legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho’s longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho’s Roman reception, which is the aim of Roman Receptions of Sappho that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial.