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"In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and
Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not
included in the original edition, as well as the new poems
discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter
material yields fresh insights into Sappho's representations of old
age, two of her brothers, and her special relationship with
Aphrodite. Pamela Gordon's engaging, balanced, and informative
Introduction has been revised to incorporate discussion of the new
fragments, which subtly alter our previous understanding of the
archaic poet's corpus. Complete Poems and Fragments also offers a
useful updated bibliography, as well as a section on 'Elegiac
Sappho' that presents the reception of the Lesbian poet in later
Greek and Latin elegiac poems. A wonderful find for any Greekless
reader searching for a complete and up-to-date Sappho. -Patricia A.
Rosenmeyer, Department of Classics, University of
Wisconsin--Madison
Even in paradise, adolescence is complicated. The photos in Coming
of Age in Wonderland see teenagers simultaneously wedded to the
tyranny of cool while rebelling against it. These portraits of
Bermuda's teenagers are as stirring and unique as the island
itself. Debra Friedman has a BFA from the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston and an MFA from the Chicago Art Institute. Pamela
Gordon Banks was the first woman, and youngest person, ever to
serve as the Premier of Bermuda. Tom Butterfield is founder and
executive director of the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet
Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is
said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at
Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts
consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric
poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite,
celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless
enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the
tenth Muse. Stanley Lombardo's translations give us a virtuoso
embodiment of Sappho's voice, whose telltale charm, authority,
immediacy, directness, intensity, and sudden changes of tone are
among the hallmarks of his masterly translation. Pamela Gordon
introduces us to the world of Sappho, discusses questions
surrounding the transmission of her manuscripts, offers advice on
reading these texts, and concludes with an enlightening discussion
of same-sex desire in Sappho.
"In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and
Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not
included in the original edition, as well as the new poems
discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter
material yields fresh insights into Sappho's representations of old
age, two of her brothers, and her special relationship with
Aphrodite. Pamela Gordon's engaging, balanced, and informative
Introduction has been revised to incorporate discussion of the new
fragments, which subtly alter our previous understanding of the
archaic poet's corpus. Complete Poems and Fragments also offers a
useful updated bibliography, as well as a section on 'Elegiac
Sappho' that presents the reception of the Lesbian poet in later
Greek and Latin elegiac poems. A wonderful find for any Greekless
reader searching for a complete and up-to-date Sappho. -Patricia A.
Rosenmeyer, Department of Classics, University of
Wisconsin--Madison
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet
Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is
said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at
Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts
consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric
poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite,
celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless
enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the
tenth Muse. Stanley Lombardo's translations give us a virtuoso
embodiment of Sappho's voice, whose telltale charm, authority,
immediacy, directness, intensity, and sudden changes of tone are
among the hallmarks of his masterly translation. Pamela Gordon
introduces us to the world of Sappho, discusses questions
surrounding the transmission of her manuscripts, offers advice on
reading these texts, and concludes with an enlightening discussion
of same-sex desire in Sappho.
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