The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. Gc Inv. 105, Frs. 1-4

561 Pages·2016·2.966 MB·English

by  Anton Bierl, André Lardinois

TheNewestSappho:P.Sapph.ObbinkandP.GCinv.105,frs.1–4
Mnemosyne
Supplements
monographs on greek and
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The Newest Sappho:
P. Sapph. Obbink and
P. GC inv. 105, frs. 1–4
StudiesinArchaicandClassicalGreekSong,vol.2
Editedby
AntonBierl
AndréLardinois
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Title:ThenewestSappho(P.Sapph.ObbinkandP.GCinv.105,frs.1-4):studiesinarchaicandclassical
Greeksong,vol.2/editedbyAntonBierl,AndreLardinois.
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Contents
Preface ix
ListofFigures x
NoteonAbbreviations,Texts,andTranslations xi
ListofContributors xii
Introduction 1
AntonBierlandAndréLardinois
part 1
SapphointheNewFragments
1 TheNewestSappho:Text,ApparatusCriticus,andTranslation 13
DirkObbink
2 TenPoemsofSappho:Provenance,Authenticity,andTextoftheNew
SapphoPapyri 34
DirkObbink
3 SongsforSailorsandLovers 55
JoelLidov
4 Sappho,Iambist:AbusingtheBrother 110
RichardP.Martin
5 TheNewestSapphoandArchaicGreek-NearEastern
Interactions 127
KurtA.Raaflaub
6 HowDidSappho’sSongsGetintotheMaleSympotic
Repertoire? 148
EwenBowie
vi contents
part 2
BrothersSong
7 Sappho’sBrothersSongandtheFictionalityofEarlyGreekLyric
Poetry 167
AndréLardinois
8 HeraandtheReturnofCharaxos 188
DeborahBoedeker
9 GoodbyeFamilyGloom!TheComingofCharaxosintheBrothers
Song 208
DirkObbink
10 SapphoandtheMythopoeticsoftheDomestic 225
Anastasia-ErasmiaPeponi
11 GenderedSpheresandMythicModelsinSappho’sBrothers
Poem 238
LeslieKurke
12 LarichosintheBrothersPoem:SapphoSpeaksTruthtothe
Wine-Pourer 266
EvaStehle
13 TheReceptionofSappho’sBrothersPoeminRome 293
LlewelynMorgan
14 ‘AllYouNeedisLove’:SomeThoughtsontheStructure,Texture,and
MeaningoftheBrothersSongaswellasonItsRelationtotheKypris
Song(P.Sapph.Obbink) 302
AntonBierl
part 3
KyprisSong
15 SapphoasAphrodite’sSinger,Poet,andHero(ine):The
ReconstructionoftheContextandSenseoftheKyprisSong 339
AntonBierl
contents vii
16 SapphoandKypris:‘TheVertigoofLove’(P.Sapph.Obbink21–29;
P.Oxy.1231,fr.16) 353
SandraBoehringerandClaudeCalame
17 Loving,butnotLoved:TheNewKyprisSongintheContextof
Sappho’sPoetry 368
RenateSchlesier
18 ReimaginingtheFragmentsofSapphothroughTranslation 396
DianeRayor
part 4
HeraSong(fr.17)
19 NotesontheFirstStanzaofFragment17 415
JoelLidov
20 SapphoFragment17:WishingCharaxosaSafeTrip? 424
StefanoCaciagli
21 APoeticsofSisterlyAffectintheBrothersSongandinOtherSongsof
Sappho 449
GregoryNagy
Bibliography 493
IndexofPassages 526
IndexofAncientNames 539

Preface
ThisisthesecondvolumeinaserieswithinBrill’sMnemosyneSupplements
which records the proceedings of the Network for the Study of Archaic and
Classical Greek Song (http://greeksong.ruhosting.nl/). One volume in the se-
ries,entitledTheLookofLyric:GreekSongandtheVisual,eds.VanessaCazzato
andAndréLardinois,hasalreadybeenpublished,whiletwomoreareinprepa-
ration:onauthorshipandauthorityinGreeklyricpoetryandonthereception
andtransmissionofGreeklyricpoetryfrom600bcto400ad.TheNetworkwas
founded in 2007 as a means of facilitating interaction among scholars inter-
estedinthestudyofarchaicandclassicallyric,elegiacandiambicpoetry.Most
ofthepapersincludedinthisvolumewereoriginallypresentedattheconfer-
enceentitled‘SapphointheThirdMillennium’,organisedbyAntonBierlatthe
University of Basel in the Summer of 2014, or at the panel on the New Frag-
mentsofSappho,organisedbyAndréLardinoisattheannualmeetingofthe
SocietyforClassicalStudiesinNewOrleansinJanuary2015.Thepublicationof
thevolumewasthenplannedjointlybyAntonBierlandAndréLardinoisand
thepapersunderwentaprocessofpeerreviewingatthehandsoftheeditorsas
wellasananonymousreviewerforthePress.Thecontributorswerealsoable
toreadeachother’spapersandcommentonthembeforethemanuscriptwent
topress.Wewouldliketoexpressourgratitudetotheanonymousreaderfor
hisfine,crystal-clearcommentsandhisthoroughrevisionofthemanuscript.
WefurtherwouldliketothankDebbyBoedeker,VanessaCazzato,Dorisand
Pia Degen, Hendri Dekker and Marieke Graumans, who helped us prepare
themanuscriptforpublication,andLaurieMeijersandherteam,whodidan
excellentjobincopy-editingandcomposingthetext.Finally,wewouldliketo
thanktheFacultyofArtsofRadboudUniversityforprovidingthefundswhich
enabledthisvolumetobemadeavailablethroughOpenAccess.
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