Ebook {Epub PDF} The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues by Ellen Greene

This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of the newly-recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essays by leading scholars, it addresses a wide range of textual and philological issues connected with the find. The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues Citation: Greene, Ellen, and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds. Hellenic Studies Series Sappho philosophical reflections on death and aging / Ellen Greene; A reading of Sappho poem 58, fragment 31 and mimnermus / Marguerite Johnson; The "new Sappho" reconsidered in the light of the Athenian reception of Sappho / Gregory Nagy. Summary The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments.

The new Sappho on old age: textual and philosophical issues: Oxford readings in classical studies: Propertius: Pushing daisies: the complete first season: Re-reading Sappho / ed. by Ellen Greene. - Berkeley [etc.], cop. Re-reading Sappho: reception and transmission: Reading Sappho contemporary approaches: Talk Radio: Women poets in. The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues, edited by Ellen Greene and Marilyn B. Skinner, Hellenic Studies 38 (Cambridge, MA and London: Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard University Press, ). The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented excitement and discussion among scholarly and lay audiences alike.

This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of the newly-recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essays by leading scholars, it addresses a wide range of textual and philological issues connected with the find. The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues – Edited by Ellen Greene and Marilyn B. Skinner - Clay - - Religious Studies Review - Wiley Online Library. Chapter Sappho Philosophical Reflections on Death and Aging []. Ellen Greene Although most contemporary scholars are in agreement that Sappho’s verse appropriates themes and poetic conventions employed by both Homer and male lyric poets, there is considerable disagreement about the extent to which Sappho’s extant poetry ought to be considered ‘woman-centered,’ that is, poetry.