Sappho by Diane J Rayor
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Everything that survives - substantial poems and fragments, including three recently discovered poems - is here presented in a graceful modern translation, together with professional recordings.
Diane J. Rayor is Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, where she received the Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service, and the Women's Impact Award. She was granted the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for translating Euripides' Helen and served as the University of Colorado's Roe Green Visiting Theatre Artist for Euripides' Hecuba. Her published translations include Euripides' 'Medea' (Cambridge, 2013); Sophocles' 'Antigone' (Cambridge, 2011); Homeric Hymns (2nd ed. 2014); Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991); and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo, 1988). She is coeditor of Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (2nd ed. 2018). In her thirtieth year of teaching at GVSU she retired from the Classics Department that she co-founded. André Lardinois is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. He has published extensively on Sappho and other Greek poetry. He is co-author of Tragic Ambiguity: Philosophy and Sophocles' 'Antigone' (1987) and co-editor of Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society (2001), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (2005), Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion (2011), The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual and The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P.GC inv. 105, frs. 1-4 (2016).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108926973 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108926975 |
| Title | Sappho |
| Author | Diane J Rayor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 214 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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