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The New Sappho on Old Age Ellen Greene

The New Sappho on Old Age By Ellen Greene

The New Sappho on Old Age by Ellen Greene


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This is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of a newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. 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.

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The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues by Ellen Greene

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 Ellen Greene

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. Dee L. Clayman is Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 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.

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CIN0674032950G
9780674032958
0674032950
The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues by Ellen Greene
Used - Good
Paperback
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
20091101
250
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