Sappho and folk literature
Abstract
The present study investigates folk, traditional conventions in the poetry of Sappho. Themes and motifs, patterns of thought and expression, symbolism, ritual discourse and wording bind Sappho’s poetry to the oral literature known it from the 19th and 20th century recorded in writing greek folk songs, folktales, riddles, proverbs, myths. Taken into consideration the very few lyrics preserved from the ancient oral literature, in the introduction of the study the main emphasis lays in the historical perception of intertextuality and diachronic course of folk song and in the close interweaving of literate literature with the oral one in Greek tradition. In the first huge chapter of Erotes, it becomes evident that Sappho incorporates traditional metaphors in the poetic plan. The intense symptoms of erotic desire are presumed to be derived from the popular source that has supplied the epic poetry, the medicinal and magic texts with symptoms and stereotyped reactions. Dignified by the litera ...
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