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John J. Miller is joined by Jessica Hooten Wilson of Pepperdine University to discuss the poetry of Sappho.
Poet. Lover. Legend. Fusing ancient poetry with modern music, Greek chorus with contemporary dance, Sappho is a thrilling adult fairy tale of mythic proportions that may – or may not – have ...
Selby Wynn Schwartz’s After Sappho is a unique work of fiction that resembles a group biography on the travails of 20th-century queer feminist artists.
In ‘After Sappho,’ Selby Wynn Schwartz weaves together fragments of poetry and biography to dazzling effect.
Sapphic is a beautiful and inclusive term that combines many identities and experiences and sounds pretty bougie. Unlike labels like lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual, which define attraction based on ...
Unit information: Sappho: Poetry and Society in Ancient Greece in 2036/37 Please note: Programme and unit information may change as the relevant academic field develops. We may also make changes to ...
In the poetry of Sappho, he locates the stirrings of an interior self; in the writings of Xenophanes, the political mind; in the thought of Pythagoras, an immortal soul.
According to tradition, the couplet refers to the tumultuous love affair between the poet and a woman whose pseudonym is Lesbia, a name closely alluding to the love poems of Sappho of ancient Lesbos.
Unit information: Sappho: Poetry and Society in Ancient Greece in 2030/31 Please note: It is possible that the information shown for future academic years may change due to developments in the ...