The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674032958)

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.

Author: Ellen Greene
ISBN-10: 0674032950
ISBN-13: 9780674032958
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.47d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 272