The CHS team is pleased to announce the online publication of Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception, by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis for free on the CHS website. For a print version of this edition, please visit the Harvard University Press website. “The need… Read more
The CHS team is pleased to announce the online publication of Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception, by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis for free on the CHS website. For a print version of this edition, please visit the Harvard University Press website. “The need to… Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies, in association with Govinda Gallery, is pleased to announce SapphoFest 2015, three days of art and discussion celebrating the songs of Sappho, fifty years of Donovan's poetry and music, and Donovan's Sapphographs. Read more
Detail from Attic krater attributed to the Brygos painter, 480-470 BCE. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel. “A diachronic as well as synchronic approach to the songmaking of Sappho” by Gregory Nagy In his posting Diachronic Sappho: some prolegomena, Gregory Nagy argues that the art of Sappho’s songmaking can… Read more
Detail from Attic krater attributed to the Brygos painter, 480-470 BCE. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel. “A diachronic as well as synchronic approach to the songmaking of Sappho” by Gregory Nagy In his posting Diachronic Sappho: some prolegomena, Gregory Nagy argues that the art of Sappho’s songmaking can… Read more
In this excerpt from our CHS Essentials video series, Glynnis Fawkes talks about how she experiences classics through art and particularly comics. Glynnis Fawkes is currently creating visual art to supplement Gregory Nagy’s working translations on the newest Sappho. View more of her work here. … Read more
In this excerpt from our CHS Essentials video series, Glynnis Fawkes talks about how she experiences classics through art and particularly comics. Glynnis Fawkes is currently creating visual art to supplement Gregory Nagy’s working translations on the newest Sappho. View more of her work here. Read more
Featured research on The Brothers Song and “Sappho’s sisterly identity” “What would be so delightful about songs expressing an aristocratic woman’s tormented feelings about a brother who squandered his family’s wealth on a courtesan in Egypt?” In an attempt to answer this question, Gregory Nagy comments on the… Read more
Featured research on The Brothers Song and “Sappho’s sisterly identity” “What would be so delightful about songs expressing an aristocratic woman’s tormented feelings about a brother who squandered his family’s wealth on a courtesan in Egypt?” In an attempt to answer this question, Gregory Nagy comments… Read more
"What happens if the occasion for performing a given genre of song becomes obsolete?" Gregory Nagy considers this question in his recent article on Classical Inquiries: "Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited—with special reference to the 'newest Sappho'.” (2015.10.1) Drawing on the songs of Sappho and the modern lyrics of Lesley Gore, Nagy argues that genre can compensate for, and even absolutize, the occasion of performance. For Nagy, the occasion of choral… Read more
