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D. Yatromanolakis, Sappho in the making: the early reception

D. Yatromanolakis, Sappho in the making: the early reception

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Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Sappho in the making: the early reception.Hellenic studies 28. Washington, D.C.:Center for Hellenic Studies, 2007. xx, 442 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674026865.

Recension de cet ouvrage par Gauthier Liberman, Université Paris Ouest dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.12.13

 Présentation de l'éditeur:

This bookoffers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practicesand ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the"reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages ofher reception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigatesvisual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronicmultilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making of"Sappho" in the late archaic, classical, and early Hellenisticperiods. Offering a systematic analysis of the contextual cues provided by vasepaintings and focusing on the sociocultural institution of the symposion, thisbook explores the intricate modes of the assimilation of Sappho's poetry intodiverse social, aesthetic, and performative contexts. Drawing on a number ofdisciplines, including archaeology, papyrology, and anthropology, Sappho inthe Making articulates a new methodological Problematik on the reception ofarchaic Greek socioaesthetic cultures.

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek and LatinLiterature at The Johns Hopkins University.