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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142279| Title: | Sappho in the Greek comedy. Mocked or mocking? A new consideration on Sappho’s role in the comic fragments |
| Authors: | Vuono, Emanuele |
| Keywords: | Sappho -- In literature Women -- History -- To 500 Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism Women poets, Greek Classical literature -- Themes, motives Lesbos (Greece : Municipality) -- In literature |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | Malta Classics Association |
| Citation: | Vuono, E. (2021). Sappho in the Greek comedy. Mocked or mocking? A new consideration on Sappho’s role in the comic fragments. Melita Classica, 7, 171-191. |
| Abstract: | In the following pages I will consider the existing comic fragments related to Sappho, the poetess from Lesbos. My aim is to challenge the scholars who have claimed that Sappho was ridiculed in the comic tradition for her licentiousness, for her ugliness, and more generally for her life and habits. I will show that there is no certain evidence for that in the texts that survive and, on the contrary, that some elements indicate the opposite, offering traits that are in common with some Aristophanic female figures. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142279 |
| ISBN: | 9789918211388 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melita Classica : Volume 07 : 2021 |
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