The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Hellenic Studies Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674032950 ISBN 13: 9780674032958

Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2010

Synopsis

The world has long wished for more of Sappho’s poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 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. Using different approaches, the contributions demonstrate how the “New Sappho” can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Greene is Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma.

Dirk Obbink is University Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Christ Church, Oxford.

Deborah Boedeker is Professor of Classics at Brown University and Joint Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.

Gregory Nagy is Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and Director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0674032950
• ISBN 13: 9780674032958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Greene Ellen, Skinner Marilyn