Author: BMP Audio
Publisher: B M P Audio
ISBN: 9781888453058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Born on the island of Lesbos in 612 B.C., Sappho is believed to be the first woman to write lyric poetry. Although few of her poems have survived, she is considered one of the greatest of the early Greek poets, and her few surviving poems are some of the simplest yet most passionate ever written. Among the 30 poems and poem fragments collected here are Eros, Death of Adonis and Song of the Wedding Bed.An elegant, haunting audio book...given rich, sensitive readings. -- Bruce Nelson, editor of Mythos
Sappho-Touched by Eros
Author: BMP Audio
Publisher: B M P Audio
ISBN: 9781888453058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Born on the island of Lesbos in 612 B.C., Sappho is believed to be the first woman to write lyric poetry. Although few of her poems have survived, she is considered one of the greatest of the early Greek poets, and her few surviving poems are some of the simplest yet most passionate ever written. Among the 30 poems and poem fragments collected here are Eros, Death of Adonis and Song of the Wedding Bed.An elegant, haunting audio book...given rich, sensitive readings. -- Bruce Nelson, editor of Mythos
Publisher: B M P Audio
ISBN: 9781888453058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Born on the island of Lesbos in 612 B.C., Sappho is believed to be the first woman to write lyric poetry. Although few of her poems have survived, she is considered one of the greatest of the early Greek poets, and her few surviving poems are some of the simplest yet most passionate ever written. Among the 30 poems and poem fragments collected here are Eros, Death of Adonis and Song of the Wedding Bed.An elegant, haunting audio book...given rich, sensitive readings. -- Bruce Nelson, editor of Mythos
The Poems of Sappho
Author: Sappho
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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If Not, Winter
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307556980
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” "Sappho's verse has been elevated to new heights in [this] gorgeous translation." --The New York Times "Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator....Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth." --Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307556980
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” "Sappho's verse has been elevated to new heights in [this] gorgeous translation." --The New York Times "Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator....Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth." --Los Angeles Times
Eros the Bittersweet
Author: Anne Carson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691249245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho’s invention of the word “bittersweet” to describe Eros, Carson’s original and beautifully written book is a wide-ranging reflection on the conflicted nature of romantic love, which is both “miserable” and “one of the greatest pleasures we have.”
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691249245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho’s invention of the word “bittersweet” to describe Eros, Carson’s original and beautifully written book is a wide-ranging reflection on the conflicted nature of romantic love, which is both “miserable” and “one of the greatest pleasures we have.”
Foucault's Strange Eros
Author: Lynne Huffer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault’s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject. Focusing on the ethical implications of this mode of thought, Huffer shows how Foucault’s poetic archival method offers a way to counter the disciplining of speech. At the heart of this method is a conception of the archive as Sapphic: the past’s remains are, like Sappho’s verses, hole-ridden, scattered, and dissolved by time. Listening for eros across fragmented texts, Huffer stages a series of encounters within an archive of literary and theoretical readings: the eroticization of violence in works by Freud and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the historicity of madness in the Foucault-Derrida debate, the afterlives of Foucault’s antiprison activism, and Monique Wittig’s Sapphic materialism. Through these encounters, Foucault’s Strange Eros conceives of ethics as experiments in living that work poetically to make the present strange. Crafting fragments that dissolve into Sapphic brackets, Huffer performs the ethics she describes in her own practice of experimental writing. Foucault’s Strange Eros hints at the self-hollowing speech of an eros that opens a space for the strange.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault’s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject. Focusing on the ethical implications of this mode of thought, Huffer shows how Foucault’s poetic archival method offers a way to counter the disciplining of speech. At the heart of this method is a conception of the archive as Sapphic: the past’s remains are, like Sappho’s verses, hole-ridden, scattered, and dissolved by time. Listening for eros across fragmented texts, Huffer stages a series of encounters within an archive of literary and theoretical readings: the eroticization of violence in works by Freud and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the historicity of madness in the Foucault-Derrida debate, the afterlives of Foucault’s antiprison activism, and Monique Wittig’s Sapphic materialism. Through these encounters, Foucault’s Strange Eros conceives of ethics as experiments in living that work poetically to make the present strange. Crafting fragments that dissolve into Sapphic brackets, Huffer performs the ethics she describes in her own practice of experimental writing. Foucault’s Strange Eros hints at the self-hollowing speech of an eros that opens a space for the strange.
Three Views of Eros
Author: Apostolos Zoiopulos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The Song of Eros
Author:
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809386844
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This collection of new translations of eighty poems provides a pleasant, thought-provoking reminder of love’s vagaries as captured through the wit, charm, and insight of the master poets of antiquity. All the emotions and experiences associated with love—rejection, infatuation, ecstasy, desperation, loneliness—are rendered accessible to contemporary readers through this lively, modern, yet faithful English translation of works that date from the seventh century B.C.to the sixth century A.D.Illustrations accompany the poetry of Plato, Sappho, Stratto, Meleagros, and others, capturing both the flavor of the age and the theme of the texts.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809386844
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This collection of new translations of eighty poems provides a pleasant, thought-provoking reminder of love’s vagaries as captured through the wit, charm, and insight of the master poets of antiquity. All the emotions and experiences associated with love—rejection, infatuation, ecstasy, desperation, loneliness—are rendered accessible to contemporary readers through this lively, modern, yet faithful English translation of works that date from the seventh century B.C.to the sixth century A.D.Illustrations accompany the poetry of Plato, Sappho, Stratto, Meleagros, and others, capturing both the flavor of the age and the theme of the texts.
Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351239090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and Homer the supreme poets.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351239090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and Homer the supreme poets.
Poems and Fragments
Author: Sappho
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872205918
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872205918
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'
Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator
Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472502620
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists. Despite its ancient prominence, the authorship of Alcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472502620
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists. Despite its ancient prominence, the authorship of Alcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.