12 Classics (12CLS2)

12 Classics

SEMESTER TWO COURSE

‘Sappho LGBTQ+ Icon of Archaic Greece: her life, poetry and reception through the ages’ 

The world’s first female writer, the original Lesbian Sappho - her beautiful love poetry, and the strange long history of how later cultures have tried to tame and sanitise her memory through art and writing.

Topics

• Woman in Archaic and Classical Greece
• Sappho’s life and poetry
• Sappho through the ages
• The Sappho paintings of Gustave Moreau, French symbollists

This course is split into two semesters: students can take just one course or both.