Events
Let's Talk About Sappho: "Slender Aphrodite has overcome me/ with longing for a girl."
Date and Time
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location
The Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center (1161 Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus)
Description
We are excited to be joined by Diane Rayor, Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University (bio below) to celebrate the release of her new book, "Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works." Diane will introduce us to Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, and issues of translating gender markers into English.
Diane Rayor Bio:
Diane co-founded the Classics Department in 2000, and received the Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award (2011) and the Women’s Commission Women’s Impact Award (2014). Her second edition of Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (Cambridge University Press, paperback Feb. 2023) includes more poems and an audio recording by Kate Reading. Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVawZtVH51c
Rayor’s other book translations of ancient Greek poetry and drama include Euripides' 'Medea' (2013), Sophocles' 'Antigone'(2011), Homeric Hymns (California 2014), and Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991). She also assisted in the TEDed production on the origin of the word “Lesbian”: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/ancient-greece-s-most-intriguing-erotic-poet-diane-j-rayor.
This event has been tagged as 100, 201, arts, classics, int, lgbtqia, and poetry.
Contact
Contact the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center for details at [email protected] or 616-331-2530.