MELISSA MUELLER is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy (2016), co-editor of The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (2018), and series co-editor of Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms for Edinburgh University Press.

• Introduction: A Colicky Muse; Part I. Reparative Reading: 1. Reparative Intertextualities: Sappho and Homer Between Lesbos and Troy; 2. Sappho and Sedgwick as Reparative Readers; Part II. Sappho and Homer: 3. Plaiting and Poikilia: the Materialities of Sappho's Craft; 4. Aphrodite and the Poetics of Shame; 5. In the Bardo with Tithonos; 6. Sappho fr. 44V, or Andromache's 'No Future' Wedding Song; 7. Sappho's Third Alternative: Helen and the Queering of Epic Desire; 8. Sapphic Remembering, Lyric Kleos; Epilogue: Homer's Night, Sappho's Day; Appendix: On the Absence of the newest Sappho fragments from this book.

'… fascinating readings of Sappho and some new features of the compared episodes in Homeric poems … Recommended.' H. M. Roisman, CHOICE

MELISSA MUELLER is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy (2016), co-editor of The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (2018), and series co-editor of Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms for Edinburgh University Press.

• Introduction: A Colicky Muse; Part I. Reparative Reading: 1. Reparative Intertextualities: Sappho and Homer Between Lesbos and Troy; 2. Sappho and Sedgwick as Reparative Readers; Part II. Sappho and Homer: 3. Plaiting and Poikilia: the Materialities of Sappho's Craft; 4. Aphrodite and the Poetics of Shame; 5. In the Bardo with Tithonos; 6. Sappho fr. 44V, or Andromache's 'No Future' Wedding Song; 7. Sappho's Third Alternative: Helen and the Queering of Epic Desire; 8. Sapphic Remembering, Lyric Kleos; Epilogue: Homer's Night, Sappho's Day; Appendix: On the Absence of the newest Sappho fragments from this book.

'… fascinating readings of Sappho and some new features of the compared episodes in Homeric poems … Recommended.' H. M. Roisman, CHOICE

MELISSA MUELLER is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy (2016), co-editor of The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (2018), and series co-editor of Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms for Edinburgh University Press.

• Introduction: A Colicky Muse; Part I. Reparative Reading: 1. Reparative Intertextualities: Sappho and Homer Between Lesbos and Troy; 2. Sappho and Sedgwick as Reparative Readers; Part II. Sappho and Homer: 3. Plaiting and Poikilia: the Materialities of Sappho's Craft; 4. Aphrodite and the Poetics of Shame; 5. In the Bardo with Tithonos; 6. Sappho fr. 44V, or Andromache's 'No Future' Wedding Song; 7. Sappho's Third Alternative: Helen and the Queering of Epic Desire; 8. Sapphic Remembering, Lyric Kleos; Epilogue: Homer's Night, Sappho's Day; Appendix: On the Absence of the newest Sappho fragments from this book.

'… fascinating readings of Sappho and some new features of the compared episodes in Homeric poems … Recommended.' H. M. Roisman, CHOICE