By David Wray
This literary examine of the first-century BCE Roman poet, Catullus makes use of units of comparative types to provide a brand new realizing of his poems. the 1st involves cultural anthropological money owed of male social interplay within the premodern Mediterranean, and the second one, the postmodern poetics of such twentieth-century poets as Louis Zukofsky, that are characterised by way of simultaneous juxtaposition, a "collage" aesthetic, and self-allusive play. The publication might be of curiosity to scholars of comparative literature and gender reviews in addition to to classicists.
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I mentioned above that the poetry seems to dissolve the rigid oppositions of singer and audience, desirer and object of desire. In one poem (fr. 22), Sappho urges her friend Abanthis to sing about Gongyla, another member of the group—‘while desire once again flies around you, the lovely one—for her dress excited you when you saw it: and I rejoice’. All three women seem bound up in a circle of love and song. We can see here a Fifty key classical authors 24 kind of celebration of female charms which avoids the objectification that besets so much male-authored love poetry, however well intentioned.
But here is what he tells us. Hesiod lived in a town called Ascra, in Boeotia (central Greece), near the foot of Mount Helicon. His father had been a seaman from Cyme on the coast of Asia Minor, but had settled on the land in Ascra because of ‘poverty’. Poverty was no doubt endemic in Hesiod’s society, but it is also something of a leitmotif in the Works and Days (on which more in a moment) and so particularly suspect as a biographical detail. After their father’s death, Hesiod and his brother Perses had divided up his property, but Perses had bribed certain local nobles into supporting him in attempts to get more than his share.
It is fr. 31, in which the speaker sees the beauty and charm of a loved one and is overwhelmed. The man who sits opposite her and hears her sweetly talking and laughing seems like a god. This man has caused many readers to see the poem as a wedding song, with the man as groom. The suffering incurred by the speaker may be a result of jealousy at the man who takes her beloved’s attention away, or it may be simply the effect of the beloved’s charms on Sappho, to which the man himself is remarkably immune.