Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

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Diane J. Rayor (Grand Valley State University, Michigan) André Lardinois (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Sappho

A New Translation of the Complete Works

Diane J. Rayor (Grand Valley State University, Michigan), André Lardinois (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

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Cambridge University Press
02 February 2023

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Gender studies: women

Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems and fragments, including three poems discovered in the last two decades. The power of Sappho's poetry ‒ her direct style, rich imagery, and passion ‒ is apparent even in these remnants. Diane Rayor's translations of Greek poetry are graceful, modern in diction yet faithful to the originals. Sappho's voice is heard in these poems about love, friendship, rivalry, and family. In the introduction and notes, André Lardinois plausibly reconstructs Sappho's life and work, the performance of her songs, and how these fragments survived. This second edition incorporates thirty-two more fragments primarily based on Camillo Neri's 2021 Greek edition and revisions of over seventy fragments.

Edited by: André Lardinois (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Edited and translated by: Diane J. Rayor (Grand Valley State University Michigan)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781108926973
ISBN 10: 1108926975
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 02 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diane J. Rayor is Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, where she received the Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service, and the Women's Impact Award. She was granted the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for translating Euripides' Helen and served as the University of Colorado's Roe Green Visiting Theatre Artist for Euripides' Hecuba. Her published translations include Euripides' 'Medea' (Cambridge, 2013); Sophocles' 'Antigone' (Cambridge, 2011); Homeric Hymns (2nd ed. 2014); Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991); and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo, 1988). She is coeditor of Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (2nd ed. 2018). In her thirtieth year of teaching at GVSU she retired from the Classics Department that she co-founded. André Lardinois is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. He has published extensively on Sappho and other Greek poetry. He is co-author of Tragic Ambiguity: Philosophy and Sophocles' 'Antigone' (1987) and co-editor of Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society (2001), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (2005), Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion (2011), The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual and The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P.GC inv. 105, frs. 1-4 (2016).