Sappho in the Making

The Early Reception

By: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

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Paperback | 1 January 2008 | Edition Number 1

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This book offers the first interdisciplinary and in-depth study of the cultural practices and ideological paradigms that conditioned the politics of the "reading" of Sappho's songs in the early and most pivotal stages of her reception. In this wide-ranging synthesis, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigates visual representations and ancient texts in their synchronic and diachronic multilayeredness to trace the discursive nexuses that defined the making of "Sappho" in the late archaic, classical, and early Hellenistic periods. Offering a systematic analysis of the contextual cues provided by vase paintings and focusing on the sociocultural institution of the symposion, this book explores the intricate modes of the assimilation of Sappho's poetry into diverse social, aesthetic, and performative contexts. Drawing on a number of disciplines, including archaeology, papyrology, and anthropology, Sappho in the Making articulates a new methodological Problematik on the reception of archaic Greek socioaesthetic cultures.

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List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Note on Transliteration	p. xxi
An Anthropology of Reception	p. 1
Paradigms and Filters	p. 7
Classics and Anthropology	p. 21
The Persistence of Allegory: Expected Horizons and Textualized Cultures	p. 23
Cultural Translations and Writing Practices	p. 26
Beyond Fictionalization: Agency, Collective Schemata, and Interdiscursivity	p. 34
Mythopraxis and Traditions in Flux	p. 42
"Coining" Sappho and the Hermeneutics of Vraisemblance	p. 48
Ethnographic Archives of Vraisemblance in Attic Ceramics	p. 51
A Syntax of Image and Representation	p. 52
The Social Life of Attic Vases	p. 57
Visualizing Idealized Cognitive Models	p. 59
Connotation and Denotation	p. 61
[Sappho] in the Image	p. 63
Performing with a Barbitos	p. 68
Two Singers-Together	p. 73
The Grammar of Late Performances	p. 81
Yes, in the Company of a Young Woman	p. 88
The Tithonos Painter and Modes of Representation	p. 91
The Rhetoric of Lettering	p. 98
Contextualizing Schemata	p. 103
Cultural Performance, Anakreon, and the "Elaborately Dressed Revelers"	p. 110
Metonymic Webs of Signification	p. 140
Recitals Among Women	p. 143
Visualizing Song-Making	p. 161
The Anthropology of Ancient Reception: The Late Archaic and Classical Periods	p. 165
On Lesbos	p. 168
The Politics of Lesbian Idioms	p. 171
Paradigms and Histories	p. 177
Libidinal Economies	p. 183
Cultural Theatrics	p. 189
Early Performative Poetics	p. 197
Music and Words: Transmission in Performance	p. 207
The Strategies of Traveling	p. 211
Economies of Symposia and Taverns	p. 213
Clusters	p. 221
Fluidities	p. 224
A Politics of Music	p. 227
Saxa loquuntur: Alterities	p. 238
Trafficability of Palimpsests	p. 245
Contextual Plasticity	p. 259
Traditions in Flux	p. 287
Reception as Reenacted "Script"	p. 287
The Paradigm of Comedy	p. 293
An Anatomy of Representations	p. 295
Elective Affinities	p. 300
Performance and Metonymy	p. 307
Herodotos, Oral Traditions, and Symposia	p. 312
Reperformance, Genre, and Textual Plasticity: The Anatomy of Improvisation	p. 338
Textual Plasticity and Dialogues	p. 348
Reconstructive Images	p. 353
Closing Stages	p. 355
In Search of Sappho's Companions: Anthropological Fieldwork on Socioaesthetic Cultures	p. 363
Abbreviations and Bibliography	p. 369
Index of Subjects	p. 427
Index of Names	p. 433
Index of Greek Terms	p. 441
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