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Reading Sappho 3 CONTENTS 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8 SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD 9 INTRODUCTION 12 PART I LANGUAGE AND LITERARY CONTEXT 20 One Sappho's Amatory Language 21 Two Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho 36 Three Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: "Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric 45 Four Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry 68 I 68 II 73 III 74 IV 80 V 83 PART II HOMER AND THE ORAL TRADITION 86 Five Sappho and Helen 87 Six Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's Lyrics 97 PART III RITUAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 118 Seven Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood 119 1. The "Circle" of Sappho as an Institution 119 2. The Instruction Given in Sappho's Group 123 3. Sappho's Homoeroticism: the Initiatory Function 126 Eight Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality 131 Nine Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho 149 Ten Who Sang Sappho's Songs? 156 1. The Ancient Evidence About Sappho's Work 157 2. Sappho and the Distrinctions between Choral and Monodic Poetry 162 3. "I" and "We" in Sappho and Other Early Greek Poetry 166 4. Some Major Fragments: Fragments 1, 2, 5, 16, 17, 31, 58, and 95 170 5. Sappho
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