Meryl Altman

Standard Name: Altman, Meryl

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Simone de Beauvoir
This translation remained standard for a long time: later re-issues include one from Vintage in 1989 with an introduction by Deirdre Bair , and one from David Campbell in 1993 with an introduction by Margaret Crosland
Textual Features Sappho
They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic...

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Texts

Altman, Meryl. “Sappho’s Lost Sessions”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
23
, No. 6, pp. 13-14.
Altman, Meryl. “The Grand Rectification”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
27
, No. 5, pp. 3-6.