Anakreons multiple Lesbierin: Eine spielerische Hommage an Sappho

Renate Schlesier

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Eine spielerische Hommage an Sappho

In: Italo Calvino and Classics

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Renate Schlesier

Renate Schlesier Freie Universität Berlin Deutschland

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Pages:: 233–250

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715097_014

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Anacreon’s famous poem on the girl from Lesbos—fragment 358 PMG—is analysed in terms of lightness, quickness, and multiplicity, stressed by Italo Calvino as important qualities of literature in general and in particular. Sappho is not the protagonist here, as some later ancient authors presumed. Yet, by means of complex ambiguity, (self-)irony, and allusion to literary tradition, Anacreon has composed a playful homage to her as his predecessor in erotic poetry. Accordingly, in the course of these eight lines, not only Anacreon but also Sappho appear as paradigmatic poets with regard to the typical polymorphous and sophisticated ambiance of the archaic symposion. The investigation includes a critical assessment of the main positions advanced in the sometimes heated debate on this poem in modern scholarship up to the present day.

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Italo Calvino and Classics

Lightness – Quickness – Multiplicity

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 488

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004715097

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 19 Dec 2024

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- Classical Studies
  - Classical Tradition & Reception Studies
  - Greek & Latin Literature

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Part 1 Lightness

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Part 3 Multiplicity

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12 Anakreons multiple Lesbierin

Eine spielerische Hommage an Sappho

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