Sappho speaks
Mary Beard, 11 October 1990
The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome
by Jane McIntoshSnyder.
Bristol Classical Press, 199 pp., £25, May 1989,1 85399 062 0 Show More
by Jane McIntoshSnyder.
Bristol Classical Press, 199 pp., £25, May 1989,
The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece
by J.J. Winkler.
Routledge, 240 pp., £30, February 1990,0 415 90122 7 Show More
by J.J. Winkler.
Routledge, 240 pp., £30, February 1990,
Greek Virginity
by Giulia Sissa, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 240 pp., $29.95, March 1990,0 674 36320 5 Show More
by Giulia Sissa, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 240 pp., $29.95, March 1990,
“... to ridicule these attempts to deny the central place of (lesbian) sexuality in Sappho’s poetry. Jane Snyder, in The Woman and the Lyre, runs through the main strands of traditional Sappho criticism, pointing out the anachronistic absurdity that underlies most of these reconstructions of her social background and literary context. The tough, warring ... ”
