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Sappho
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Sappho (early 7th century
bc), Greek lyric poet who lived on Lesbos. The centre of a circle of women on her native island of Lesbos, she mainly wrote love poems in her local dialect (the term
sapphics is used for verse in a metre associated with her). Many of her poems express her affection and love for women, and have given rise to her association with female homosexuality, from which the words
lesbian and
sapphic in this sense derive.
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`Sappho's Leap,' by Erica Jong; Norton (320 pages, $24.95).
Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 4/29/2003; 700+ words
; Byline: Patricia Corrigan In "Sappho's Leap," the voice of the crone...dramatic note, with the 50-year-old Sappho climbing a hill, planning to jump off...makeup does not disguise her wrinkles. Sappho also is concerned with her reputation...
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`Sappho's Leap,' by Erica Jong; Norton.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 5/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Patricia Corrigan In "Sappho's Leap," the voice of the crone...dramatic note, with the 50-year-old Sappho climbing a hill, planning to jump off...makeup does not disguise her wrinkles. Sappho also is concerned with her reputation...
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The Sappho History.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; The Sappho History. By MARGARET REYNOLDS. Basingstoke and New...pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-97170-1. The Sappho History is an entertaining account of the reception of Sappho from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth...
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Victorian Sappho.(Review)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins. Princeton: Princeton...resurgence of interest in the Greek lyricist, Sappho, evident in a cluster of intriguing publications, some of the most notable being Sappho Is Burning by Page duBois (1995); Sappho...
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Victorian Sappho
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; VICTORIAN SAPPHO. By Yopie Prins. Princeton: Princeton...De Manian account of the reception of Sappho. Quoting one of De Man's essays on...linguistic predicament," Prins states that "Sappho is another name for that displacement...
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Sappho's Immortal Daughters.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Sappho's Immortal Daughters. By Margaret Williamson...from the literature to take a fresh look at Sappho, the seventh-century B.C.E. poet...significant artist, the moral character of Sappho has been the subject of great controversy...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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FICTION; SIREN SONGS; In "Sappho's Leap," Erica Jong pens a lusty tale about the legendary Greek poet.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 5/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...oldest known writing by a woman, the poet Sappho, who lived on the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos 2,600 years ago. Plato called Sappho the Tenth Muse, and Jong (in her epilogue...combination of Madonna and Sylvia Plath. "Sappho's Leap" looks at the power of music...
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BOOK REVIEW: Jong falls flat with 'Sappho's Leap'
News Wire article from: University Wire; 5/29/2003; ; 690 words
; ...times of ancient Egyptians and Romans. In the book, "Sappho's Leap," Jong tries to bring the life of Sappho, one of history's greatest poets to life for her audience. Jong takes Sappho's still existing poetic phrases and weaves them into...
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Book review: An empty anthology of the original lesbian Tuesday Book: The Sappho Companion edited by Margaret Reynolds (Chatto & Windus, pounds 25)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/20/2000; ; 700+ words
; WE KNOW sadly little of Sappho: only that she was born into an aristocratic...poetry and music. We also know that Sappho had an extraordinarily high reputation...will tell us all we want to know about Sappho. Margaret Reynolds reproduces 30 substantial...
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Sappho's lost sessions.(discovered poem)
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sappho has come out with a new poem: not bad for...a mummy. Some of what they found was by Sappho. West published a reconstruction of the...http://www.aoidoi.org/poets/sappho/new.pdf. Here's mine: you, who...
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Sappho
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sappho Sappho (ca. 625-570 B.C.), a Greek lyric poet, was the greatest female...quality of intimacy has great appeal to modern poetic tastes. The poetry of Sappho epitomizes a style of writing evolved during the 7th and 6th centuries...
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Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Troy (1778, Brown University, Providence, R.I.); and Sappho (1775, John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida...Kauffmann used self-portraits in her representations of Helen and Sappho, as well as many more of her historical figures, since they...
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Alcaeus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...odes. He was, according to tradition, a close associate of Sappho . The Alcaic strophe (a four-line stanza) said to be his...it with slight modification. Bibliography: See D. Page, Sappho and Alcaeus (1955); H. Martin, Alcaeus (1972); A. P...
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gay and lesbian literature
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...of the First World War. With the exception of the residua of Sappho , lesbian writing lacks these strong classical precedents. Apart from extraordinary early figures like ‘the English Sappho’, Katherine Philips , lesbian literature was born...
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Classicism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...culture. Homer's epics (c. 800 b.c.e.), the poetry of Sappho (seventh century b.c.e.) and Pindar (sixth century b...have some fragments of the writings — a few poems of Sappho and some works of Aristotle, for example — and some...
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