The poetry of the archaic poets of Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, has
been imperfectly and poorly transmitted either in book fragments or
in later ragged papyri, so that new attempts of interpretation will
always be required, especially when new research tools and methods
have appeared in classical scholarship. The book consists of 14
articles by the author, which present and deal with diverse
problems of the two poets of Lesbos. Various questions on already
transmitted poems, different readings, reconstructions, and
interpretations of the new finds are proposed, but, most
importantly, new approaches in general topics, such as the division
of Sappho's work in Books, the logic leading to this division, the
order of these Books, the contents of each of them, the
interpretation of the surviving fragments, often quite different
than before. A feature that characterizes the old-age poetry of
Sappho is her anxiety about the posthumous fate of her poetry and
her hope that Kleis, her only daughter, will ensure its
dissemination. Finally, the author investigates the communal
festival of Hera in Lesbos, a festival performed in common with
Zeus and Dionysus, the so-called "Lesbian Triad". The festival is
specified as a welcome to the season of spring at the time of the
vernal equinox. Also, the location of the temenos of Hera is
investigated, close to Pyrrha of Lesbos, which was the site of
Alcaeus' second exile.
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