Berkeley-Stanford Joint Seminar on the New Sappho Fragments

Date
Fri May 2nd 2014, 2:00pm
Location
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley-Stanford Joint Seminar on the New Sappho Fragments
New Sappho Poems to be Discussed
Classicists around the world have been busy puzzling over and talking about fragments from two new poems of the 6th-century BCE poet Sappho of Lesbos ever since Oxford papyrologist Dirk Obbink shared a preliminary version of the forthcoming first edition. Soon, the Berkeley and Stanford Classics Departments will join forces for a symposium to share ideas about the fragments. 
 

The Berkeley-Stanford Joint Seminar on the New Sappho Fragments will take place in 370 Dwinelle Hall from 2 to 5 pm on Friday, May 2. The schedule is as follows:

2:10-2:15: Welcome/Introduction by Leslie Kurke
2:15-2:45: Group translation of new fragments led by Donald Mastronarde, UC Berkeley
2:45-3:00: "Gendered Spheres and Mythic Models in Sappho's Brothers Fragment" by Leslie Kurke
3:00-3:15: "Sappho and Mythopoetics of Reality" by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford
3:15-3:30: "Sappho Iambist" by Richard P. Martin, Stanford
3:30-3:45: "Sappho's Oikonomia" by Mark Griffith, UC Berkeley
3:45-5:00: General discussion