CLASSICS 16N: Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos (FEMGEN 24N)

Classics Stanford University 3.0 credits

Course Description

Preference to freshmen. Sappho's surviving fragments in English; traditions referring to or fantasizing about her disputed life. How her poetry and legend inspired women authors and male poets such as Swinburne, Baudelaire, and Pound. Paintings inspired by Sappho in ancient and modern times, and composers who put her poetry to music.

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