Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches

Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches

Edited by Ellen Greene

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford

© The Regents of the University of California

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Preferred Citation: Greene, Ellen, editor. Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1996 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3199n81q/

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

PART I  LANGUAGE AND LITERARY CONTEXT

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One  Sappho's Amatory Language

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Two  Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho

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Three  Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: "Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric

Four  Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry

PART II  HOMER AND THE ORAL TRADITION

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Five  Sappho and Helen

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Six  Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's Lyrics

PART III  RITUAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT

Seven  Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood

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Eight  Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality

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Nine  Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho

Ten  Who Sang Sappho's Songs?

PART IV  WOMEN'S EROTICS

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Eleven  Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why is Sappho a Woman?

Twelve  Sappho's Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man

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Thirteen  The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho

Fourteen  Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in the Poetry of Sappho

Fifteen  Sappho and the Other Woman

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX