Visiting Artist Presentation: Cynthia Word
21 May 2021, 11:30 am ET
Sappho and Isadora: Once Again, This Time Read more
Sappho
‘Ich aber (sage), das Schönste ist, was einer Liebt’: Eine pragmatische Deutung von Sappho Fr. 16 LP/V
This article is a 2009 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, n.s. 74.2 (103), 2003, 91-124. Copyright, Fabrizio Serra editore. Bierl-Sappho-Fr.-16bib-4… Read more
Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited—with special reference to the “newest Sappho”
[[A preliminary version, originally published in Classical Inquiries 2015.10.01, of a chapter published in 2019: Lyric Genre, ed. Leslie Kurke, Margaret Foster, Naomi Weiss.]] Introduction §1. This essay is the third part of a tripartite project. The first part, “Genre and Occasion,” was published in ΜΗΤΙΣ (1994), and the second part, “Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: From Lesbos to Alexandria,” was published ten years later in Critical Inquiry… Read more
The Descent of the Goddess: Ritual and Difference in Sappho’s Prayer to Aphrodite
Online edition of a thesis presented to the Department of the Classics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with honors, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1990. Read more
A poetics of sisterly affect in the Brothers Song and in other songs of Sappho
[The online version of my essay as published here, dated 2015.09.08, matches a printed version published in The Newest Sappho (P. Obbink and P. GC Inv. 105, frs. 1-5), edited by Anton Bierl and André Lardinois, Leiden: Brill, 2016. I am grateful to the editors of that volume for securing permission from Brill for me to present this online version, which is longer than the printed version. The difference in length… Read more
The ‘New Sappho’ Reconsidered in the Light of the Athenian Reception of Sappho
[[This article was originally published as chapter 13 (= pp. 176-199) in E. Greene and M. Skinner, eds., 2010, The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Washington DC and Cambridge MA). It also appears in the online journal Classics@ Volume 4, edited by Ellen Greene and Marilyn Skinner. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For… Read more
The Fragmentary Muse and the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach
[[This essay originally appeared in 2009 in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (eds. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster) 69-102. In this expanded online edition, the page-numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the first edition ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made… Read more
Did Sappho and Alcaeus Ever Meet? Symmetries of Myth and Ritual in Performing the Songs of Ancient Lesbos
[Revised and corrected second edition of an article that originally appeared in Literatur und Religion I. Wege zu einer mythisch–rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen (ed. A. Bierl, R. Lämmle, K. Wesselmann; Basiliensia – MythosEikonPoiesis, vol. 1.1) 211–269. Berlin / New York 2007. The original pagination of the article will be indicated in this electronic version by way of curly brackets (“{“ and “}”). For example, “{211|212}” indicates where p. 211 of… Read more
Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung: Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik
Ordinarius für Griechische Philologie, Universität Basel 1. Was ist neu an der Neuen Sappho? Im Jahre 2002 konnte die Universität Köln eine kleine Sammlung von 25 Papyri erwerben, die von einem privaten Sammler angeboten wurde. In der berühmten Kölner Papyrussammlung ging man sofort an die Konservierung und Entzifferung. Aus Mumienkartonage gelang es, aus mehren Fetzchen (Inv. Nr. 21351 und 21376) zwei Fragmente der Sappho wiederzugewinnen. [1]… Read more
Gregory Nagy revisiting the Song 44 of Sappho
Recently, Gregory Nagy joined the CHS community for a discussion on the songmaking of Sappho. The conversation focused on Song 44 of Sappho, which has been significant to Nagy’s research over the past forty-two years. Watch below as Nagy fields questions from our community members and discusses his affinity to this fascinating song of Sappho. For more from professor Nagy on Song 44 of Sappho, as well as on Homeric… Read more