Visiting Artist Presentation: Cynthia Word
Sappho and Isadora: Once Again, This Time Read more
Sappho and Isadora: Once Again, This Time Read more
This article is a 2009 online second edition of an article that originally appeared in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, n.s. 74.2 (103), 2003, 91-124. Copyright, Fabrizio Serra editore. Bierl-Sappho-Fr.-16bib-4… Read more
[[A preliminary version, originally published in Classical Inquiries 2015.10.01, of a chapter published in 2019: Lyric Genre, ed. Leslie Kurke, Margaret Foster, Naomi Weiss.]] Introduction §1. This essay is the third part of a tripartite project. The first part, “Genre and Occasion,” was published in ΜΗΤΙΣ (1994), and the… Read more
Online edition of a thesis presented to the Department of the Classics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with honors, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1990. Read more
Short Writings: III. Table of Contents [The online version of my essay as published here, dated 2015.09.08, matches a printed version published in The Newest Sappho (P. Obbink and P. GC Inv. 105, frs. 1-5), edited by Anton Bierl and André Lardinois, Leiden: Brill, 2016. I am grateful to the editors… Read more
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [[This article was originally published as chapter 13 (= pp. 176-199) in E. Greene and M. Skinner, eds., 2010, The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Washington DC and Cambridge MA). It also appears in the online journal Classics@ Volume 4,… Read more
Short Writings: I. Table of Contents [[This essay originally appeared in 2009 in Theater des Fragments: Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne (eds. A. Bierl, G. Siegmund, Ch. Meneghetti, C. Schuster) 69-102. In this expanded online edition, the page-numbers of the print edition will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}”… Read more
To refer to this work, please cite it as follows: Anton Bierl, “Der neue Sappho-Papyrus aus Köln und Sapphos Erneuerung: Virtuelle Choralität, Eros, Tod, Orpheus und Musik,” Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, September, 2009 Basel 1. Was ist neu an der Neuen Sappho? Im Jahre 2002 konnte die Universität… Read more
Short Writings: II. Table of Contents [Revised and corrected second edition of an article that originally appeared in Literatur und Religion I. Wege zu einer mythisch–rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen (ed. A. Bierl, R. Lämmle, K. Wesselmann; Basiliensia – MythosEikonPoiesis, vol. 1.1) 211–269. Berlin / New York 2007. The original pagination… Read more
Ordinarius für Griechische Philologie, Universität Basel 1. Was ist neu an der Neuen Sappho? Im Jahre 2002 konnte die Universität Köln eine kleine Sammlung von 25 Papyri erwerben, die von einem privaten Sammler angeboten wurde. In der berühmten Kölner Papyrussammlung ging man sofort an die Konservierung und Entzifferung. Aus Mumienkartonage… Read more