Sappho's Immortal Daughters
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674789121 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mary's University College, University of Surrey. . Margaret Williamson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, St
Her life, so little known, is the stuff of legends; her poetry, the source of endless speculation. She goes back to the poet's world and time to explore perennial questions about Sappho: How could a woman have access to the public medium of song? What was the place of female sexuality in the public and religious symbolism of Greek culture? What is the sexual meaning of her poems? Williamson follows with a close look at the poems themselves, Sappho's "immortal daughters." Her book offers the clearest picture yet of a woman whose place in the history of Western culture has been at once assured and mysterious.. This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have risen around her. Little more than this can be said with certainty about Sappho, and yet a great deal more is said. Margaret Williamson conducts us through ancient
Most Comprehensive I've Read Rompcat Just fininshing up a history term paper here for my major, and I thought I'd drop off a good word for the best secondary source on Sappho's life and work that I've ever seen. Ms. Williamson leaves no rock unturned, no aspect of Sappho's work or life unaddressed, and manages to do it in an entertaining and comprehensive way without running into 500 pages! If you are interested in Sappho at all beyond the text of her extant poetry, this is the book to buy!. Kohtaro Hayashi said NO FRAGRANCE.. SAPPHO'S Immortal Daughters, by Margaret Williamson. 1995.In this book, there are utterly nothing that we can feel directly to impress with Sappho's beauty in which must be shown herself poems in Greek or the fine English translations.In reality, Josephine Balmer's translations must be excellent indeed, but her translations in this book, these have discolored by a lot of the [needless brackets].In short, Williamson has only walked around Sappho bringing with other person's works, but she did it without go astray and acted a half-rightly.Again, this book has no Sappho's beauty at all. If t
Using social, political, and literary materials that influenced and reflect Sappho's experience, the author reconstructs the atmosphere in which Sappho lived, breathed, and worked. (Greece and Rome)Williamson's lucid and absorbing study successfully presents what can be known about the cultural context of Sappho's life and work. (Jane McIntosh Snyder Helios) . Williamson introduces the reader to the pleasures of Sappho's songs, and explores the problems that we face in reconstructing the culture whic