Abstract
This article discusses Sappho’s “Ode to Anaktoria” (fragment 16) poem as a ‘marginal’ product of an aristocratic intellectual in the transitional society of Mytilene at the end of the Archaic Period (8th-5th century B.C.). The research method is a kind of media analysis. The mean of “media” in this paper related to “A means by which something is communicated or expressed” It is laso relate to the intervening substance through which sensory impressions are conveyed or physical forces are transmitted. Media also means as a substance in which an organism lives or is cultured. On the other hand, media is a material or form used by an artist, composer, or writer; We interpreted Ode to Anaktoria in the means as the terms of media above. Sappho (born 610, died 570 B.C.) is a renowned Greek lyric poetess and musician and is greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style. Plato’s 16th epigram dedicated to her reads “Some say there are nine Muses; but they should stop to think. Look at Sappho of Lesbos; she makes a tenth”. Sappho is additionally ranked among the Nine Lyric Poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study. “Ode to Anaktoria” is read through the historic-political concept of hegemony as suggested by Gramsci. In this view, the moment of “hegemony” or of cultural leadership is systematically upgraded precisely in opposition to the mechanistic and fatalistic concepts of economism. Sappho’s fragment 16 does not only indicate defiance to androcentric (epic) categories; she suggests nonnormative, thus new, ways of contemplating life (lyric).
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FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARDSAnalisa Journal of Social Science and Religion released a new edition vol.2.no.1.2017
Media is a material or form used by an artist, composer, or writer; We interpreted Ode to Anaktoria in the means as the terms of media above
The aim of this study is to interpret the text known as the “Ode to Anaktoria” which has been established as Sappho’s poetry, in its original form, examining its communicative meaning on the one hand, and at the same time investigating the internal microstructure of it as poetic artifact
Summary
Analisa Journal of Social Science and Religion released a new edition vol.2.no.1.2017. This is the third edition published in English since its beginning in 2016. This volume released in the mid of various activities and the hectic schedule in the office. According to the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria who collected her works centuries after her own era, she wrote nine books of lyric poems, and invented the ‘pléctron’. She wrote epigrams, elegaic couplets, iambics and monodic songs
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