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Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception

Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception

Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios

Paperback

Series: Hellenic Studies, Book 28

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0674026861
ISBN13: 9780674026865
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the reading of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigates visual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronic multilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making of Sappho in the late archaic, classical, and early Hellenistic periods. Offering a systematic analysis of the contextual cues provided by vase paintings and focusing on the sociocultural institution of the symposion, this book explores the intricate modes of the assimilation of Sappho's poetry into diverse social, aesthetic, and performative contexts. Drawing on a number of disciplines, including archaeology, papyrology, and anthropology, Sappho in the Making articulates a new methodological Problematik on the reception of archaic Greek socioaesthetic cultures.

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