Greene. Reading Sappho

Today's free book is Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches by Ellen Greene (1998). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at UC Press eBooks:


Table of Contents

PART I  LANGUAGE AND LITERARY CONTEXT
1  Sappho's Amatory Language
2  Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho
3  Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: "Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric
4  Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry

PART II  HOMER AND THE ORAL TRADITION
5  Sappho and Helen
6  Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's Lyrics

PART III  RITUAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
7  Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood
8  Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality
9  Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho
10  Who Sang Sappho's Songs?

PART IV  WOMEN'S EROTICS
11  Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why is Sappho a Woman?
12  Sappho's Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man
13  The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho
14  Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in the Poetry of Sappho
15  Sappho and the Other Woman