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Sappho

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By T. G. Tucker
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The lecture situates Sappho's poetry within the geography, dialect, and social life of ancient Lesbos, describing the island's landscape, climate, agricultural wealth, and musical culture. It shows how the regional Æolian speech influenced lyric form and how women's household standing and local political struggles shaped artistic circles. The speaker contrasts Lesbian tastes with other Greek temperaments, outlines the effects of factional conflict and exile on poets, and stresses that vibrant poetic and musical activity coexisted with everyday commerce and labor, rooting lyric art in communal life rather than exclusive elite leisure.

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Title: Sappho

Author: T. G. Tucker

Release date: December 12, 2019 [eBook #60906]
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Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAPPHO ***

SAPPHO

A Lecture delivered before
the Classical Association
of Victoria, 1913.

SAPPHO

T. G. TUCKER,
LITT.D. (CAMB.), HON. LITT.D. (DUBLIN)

Professor of Classical Philology in the University of
Melbourne

MELBOURNE
THOMAS C. LOTHIAN
1914
PRINTED IN ENGLAND

Copyright.
First Edition, May 1914.