Sappho in the Making : The Early Reception

by: Yatromanolakis, D.

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 This book offers the first interdisciplinary study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the "reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. In this synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigates visual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronic multilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making of "Sappho" in the late archaic, classical, and early Hellenistic periods. Offering a systematic analysis of the contextual cues provided by vase paintings and focusing on the sociocultural institution of the symposium, this book explores the intricate modes of the assimilation of Sappho's poetry into diverse social, aesthetic, and performative contexts. Drawing on a number of disciplines, including archaeology, papyrology, epigraphy, and anthropology, Sappho in the Making articulates a new methodological Problematik on the reception of archaic Greek socioaesthetic cultures.

An anthropology of reception
Paradigms and filters
Classics and anthropology
The persistence of allegory : expected horizons and textualized cultures
Cultural translations and writing practices
Beyond fictionalization: agency, collective schemata, and interdiscursivity
Mythopraxis and traditions in flux
"Coining" Sappho and the hermeneutics of vraisemblance
Ethnographic archives of vraisemblance in attic ceramics
A syntax of image and representation
The social life of attic vases
Visualizing idealized cognitive models
Connotation and denotation
[Sappho] in the image
Performing with a barbitos
Singers; together
The grammar of late performances
Yes, in the company of a young woman
The tithonos painter and modes of representation
The rhetoric of lettering
Contextualizing schemata
Cultural performance, Anakreon, and the "elaborately dressed revelers"
Metonymic webs of signification
Recitals among women
Visualizing song/making
The anthropology of ancient reception : the late archaic and classical periods
On Lesbos
The politics of Lesbian idioms
Paradigms and histories
Libidinal economies
Cultural theatrics
Early performative poetics
Music and words : transmission in performance
The strategies of traveling
Economies of symposia and taverns
Clusters
Fluidities
A politics of music
Saxa loquuntur : alterities
Trafficability of palimpsests
Contextual plasticity
Traditions in flux
Reception as reenacted 'script'
The paradigms of comedy
An anatomy of representations
Elective affinities
Performance and metonymy
Herodotos, oral traditions, and symposia
Reperformance, genre, and textual plasticity: the anatomy of improvisation
Textual plasticity and dialogues
Reconstructive images
Closing stages
In search of Sappho's companions : anthropological fieldwork on socioaesthetic cultures

Series:
Hellenic studies, 28

xx, 442 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Sappho in the Making : The Early Reception

by: Yatromanolakis, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780674026865 / 978-0-674-02686-5
• ISBN-03: 0674026861 / 0-674-02686-1
• Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007

Price: 23,00 EURO

1 copy in stock