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OverviewSappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her as 'violet, pure, honey-smiling Sappho'; and that the rhetorician and philosopher Maximus of Tyre saw her, perhaps less enthusiastically, as 'small and dark'. We also know that her 7th/6th century BCE island of Lesbos was riven by tyrannical and aristocratic factionalism and that she was probably exiled to Sicily. Much of the rest is speculative. DuBois suggests that the value of Sappho lies elsewhere: in her remarkable verse, and in the poet's reception - one of the richest of any figure from antiquity. Offering nuanced readings of the 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Page DuBois (University of California, San Diego, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.265kg ISBN: 9781784533618ISBN 10: 1784533610 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 02 September 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPage DuBois is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous books include Centaurs and Amazons; Sappho is Burning; Slaves and Other Objects; A Million and One Gods; and Slavery: Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B.Tauris, 2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |