Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception

by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Book Overview

This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the "reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigates visual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronic multilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026861
• ISBN13: 9780674026865
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.9"