The New Sappho on Old Age

Textual and Philosophical Issues
This is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of a newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. The contributions demonstrate how the “New Sappho” can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.
The world has long wished for more of Sappho’s poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented excitement and discussion among scholarly and lay audiences alike. This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of the newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essays by leading scholars, it addresses a wide range of textual and philological issues connected with the find. Using different approaches, the contributions demonstrate how the “New Sappho” can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.

Contributor: Marguerite Johnson (Contributions by), Joel Lidov (Contributions by), Jurgen Hammerstaedt (Contributions by), Lowell Edmunds (Contributions by), Ellen Greene (Edited by), Gregory Nagy (Contributions by), Eva Stehle (Contributions by), Marilyn Skinner (Edited by), Dee L. Clayman (Contributions by), Deborah Boedeker (Contributions by), Dirk Obbink (Contributions by)

Pages: 250

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