![]() ![]() They do not pretend to represent the totality of modern responses to Sappho. The essays collected by Ellen Greene in two volumes entitled Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches and Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission seek to make the poetry of Sappho more readily available to contemporary readers in a variety of disciplines and from a variety of backgrounds. It is, in essence, to make the past available to the present. ![]() ![]() But the obligation of such specialists is to the present as much as to the past. Because the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome are distant from our own experience, their interpretation requires the mediation of specialists. In contrast to much conventional classical scholarship which seeks ever more sophisticated or detailed answers to questions inherited from earlier scholarship, works selected for publication in this series use the skills of the classicist to address new issues or pose new questions. ![]() It is based upon the recognition that each generation puts its own questions to the raw material of the past and is grounded in the conviction that the classical past still has much to say to the contemporary world. The series Classics and Contemporary Thought seeks to encourage dialogue between classical studies and other fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. ― xi ― SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD Thomas Habinek ![]()
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