Lesbian Lyre

JEFFREY DUBAN attended the Boston Public Latin School, beginning his study of Latin in the seventh grade and Greek in the tenth. As a Classics major at Brown, he also studied Old Testament, Sanskrit, and Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and briefly entered upon university teaching, later earning his JD from Fordham. As an attorney, he specialized in academic law. The Lesbian Lyre is the inspiration for the author's program, in which he serves as narrator, of Sir Granville Bantock's Sappho: Nine Fragments for Contralto (see www.thelesbianlyre.com for further information).

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Guide to Pronunciation Preface Part I. 1.Greek Lyric, Greek Epic, and Old Testament; the Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns 2.Greekless Translators, Theorizing Scholars 3.Selected Lyric Poets of Antiquity: Archilochus, Alcman, Anacreon & Ibycus 4.Sappho: Antiquity's Poetess and Ours 5.Sappho's Eroticism 6.The Loves of Men, Gods, and Primordial Forces 7.Lesbos, Troy, and Environs; the Principal Greek Genres and Dialects Part II. 8.Sappho and the "Lyric Nine," An Aesthetic for Lyric Translation 9.The Aesthetic of English-Language Prosody in the Translation of Classical Verse 10.Translatability: Achieving Charm and Distinction in Translation 11.Translation as the Profession of Ignorance: Mary Barnard, Willis Barnstone, and Others 12.Translations Compared Part III. Translations: sappho alcman anacreon archilochus ibycus Part IV. 13.Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid: The Epic Cycle in Progress 14.Cosmic Preservation and the Heroism of Heracles 15.Self-Perpetuation and the Heroism at Troy 16.Imperishable Fame and the Evolution of Greek Epic 17.Imperishable Fame Denied: Sappho's "Marriage of Hector and Andromache" 18. Cataclysm Averted: Homer's Separation of Helen and Achilles Part V. 19.Homeric and Sapphic Meter, Metric Formulae and Oral Composition, the Origins of Rhyming Poetry, Milton on Blank Verse 20.Accentuation, Sound, and Word Order in Ancient Greek Poetry Part VI. 21. Growing Latin from Greek Roots, Rome's Imperial Vision and Its Aftermath Part VII. Equal to the Gods: Poetic Sublimity, Inner Collapse Equal to a God: Form and Content in Convulsive Union Frenzied Emotion, Expressive Control: Form and Content Bound Modernism Wins Out: Form and Content Abandoned "Freedom, Freedom, Prison to the Free": The Obfuscatory Unfettered Sappho Unbound and Boundaryless- Theorized, Personalized, Politicized Boundaries, Artistic Fit, and What "Art" Means and Does Part VIII. Not Making It New (or Better): Recent Iliads and Aeneids So Old It's New (and Better): The Smith/Miller Hexametric Iliad On Leaving Well Enough Alone: Rejecting Lattimore for R. Fitzgerald Pope's Iliad and E. FitzGerald's Ruba iya t; Pope on Chapman's Iliad Versions and Perversions of Homer: R. Fitzgerald, Fagles, and Logue Ezra Pound: Damage to Sextus Propertius Addendum Notes Bibliography Index

"A humanities degree between two covers. Brilliant." - David Dubal, The Juilliard School