Representative Illusions Episode 1 Sapphos Hymns - Kostenlose Archiv-Audioinhalte

This discussion on Friday, September 23rd features Thomas McEvilly’s translations of Sappho’s Hymn to Aphrodite and a brief commentary by Nicholas Ravnikar on his translation of Sappho’s 16th fragment. Featured in the discussion are Sam Colletti, Jason Pinkos, Mikayla Shannon, Aerial Beard, and Chloe Hill-Scanlon. (There’s also a Monty Python allusion to English and African sparrows by Dominic Martinelli: I wanted to clarify that the Monty Python and the Holy Grail actually references the air speed velocity of a laden swallow – not sparrow: [https://youtu.be/w8Rn\_f75UHs](https://youtu.be/w8Rn\_f75UHs).) The poems as translated by McEvilly are available at [http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Sapho\_McEvilley.html](http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Sapho\_McEvilley.html)