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200 10$aSappho /$fby Page DuBois
205   $aFirst edition.
210  1$aLondon :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2015.
215   $a1 online resource (200 pages)
225 1 $aUnderstanding classics
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
330   $a"Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her as 'violet, pure, honey-smiling Sappho'; and that the rhetorician and philosopher Maximus of Tyre saw her, perhaps less enthusiastically, as 'small and dark'. We also know that her 7th/6th century BCE island of Lesbos was riven by tyrannical and aristocratic factionalism and that she was probably exiled to Sicily. Much of the rest is speculative. DuBois suggests that the value of Sappho lies elsewhere: in her remarkable verse, and in the poet's reception - one of the richest of any figure from antiquity. Offering nuanced readings of the poems, written in an archaic Aeolic dialect, DuBois skillfully draws out their sharp images and rhythmic melody. She further discusses the exciting discovery of a new verse fragment in 2004, and the ways in which Sappho influenced Catullus, Horace and Ovid, as well as later writers and painters."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
410  0$aUnderstanding classics.
606   $aPoets, Greek
606   $aLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval$2BIC
615  0$aPoets, Greek.
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