ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD
Thomas Habinek
INTRODUCTION
Ellen Greene
I · LANGUAGE AND LITERARY CONTEXT
1. Sappho's Amatory Language
Giuliana Lanata, translated by William Robins
2. Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho
Mary R. Lefkowitz
3· Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas:"Reading"
the Symbols of Greek Lyric
Gregory Nagy
4· Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry
Charles Segal
II · HOMER AND THE ORAL TRADITION
5· Sappho and Helen
Page duBois
6. Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's
Lyrics
Jack Winkler
III · RITUAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
7· Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood
Claude Calame
8. Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality
Judith P. Hallett
9· Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on
Sappho
Eva Stehle
10. Who Sang Sappho's Songs?
Andre Lardinois
IV WOMEN'S EROTICS
11. Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why Is Sappho a
Woman?
Marilyn B. Skinner
I2. Sappho's Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man
Eva Stehle
13· The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho
Anne Carson
14. Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in the Poetry of
Sappho
Ellen Greene
15. Sappho and the Other Woman
Margaret Williamson
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Ellen Greene is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma.
"Reflects some of the currents in classics scholarship as well as gender theory, locating Sappho at the intersection of varieties of critical thought in the late 20th century."--R. Nadelhaft, "Choice
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