7 Greeks
by Heraclitus,, of Ephesus, Alcman, Herodas, Anacreon, Archilochus, Diogenes, Sappho
by Heraclitus,, of Ephesus, Alcman, Herodas, Anacreon, Archilochus, Diogenes, Sappho
by Newman, Karen, Scudéry, Madeleine de
fromOther voice in early modern Europe
by Newman, Karen, Scudéry, Madeleine de
fromOther voice in early modern Europe
Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) has not been treated kindly by the literary establishment. Yet her multivolume novels were popular bestsellers in her time, translated almost immediately into…
Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetr…
Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetr…
by Bierl, Anton, Lardinois, André
fromMnemosyne
In The Newest Sappho Anton Bierl and André Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of Sappho that were published in 2014. This set of papyrus fragments, the greatest find of Sappho fragments since the beginning of …