From jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Sun May 11 09:23:51 2003 Received: from mxu7.u.washington.edu (mxu7.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.165]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h4BGNn1M028264 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 09:23:50 -0700 Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by mxu7.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h4BGNlf7009727 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 09:23:48 -0700 Received: from [134.153.128.98] (drusus.clas.mun.ca [134.153.128.98]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.12.3p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4BGNfUf002431 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 13:53:44 -0230 (NDT) X-Sender: jbutrica@pop.morgan.ucs.mun.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <3EBD3E0F.F31585C3@mail.lemoyne.edu> <000401c316f6$14a48cc0$b4cb64a8@jfgannon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 13:55:38 +0100 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: James Butrica Subject: Re: Sappho gets Jonged >>James Butrica wrote: >>> >>> [A] new novel called "Sappho's Leap" >>> by Erika Jong ... and maybe a great come-back role >> > for Demi Moore when it becomes a Major Hollywood Film. > >John McMahon added: >>Well, I'm not a movie-goer ... but for the good of just >>about everyone else, I hope that never happens. > >But she could do for the study of Greek lyric poetry what she did for >the study of the American novel! (Or maybe that was your point...) > >JMP("Pale Red Glyph") On the other hand, for someone chalcenteric enough to read it, book and/or film might provide the makings of an interesting study of what Sappho has become in pop culture -- where few from our galaxy have gone before. If Sappho's mother appears in the novel (now there's a thought: has anyone speculated about Sappho's relationship with her mother?), then Tina Louise should play her in the film -- having herself played "Sappho, Warrior Empress" before her career was shipwrecked. James L. P. Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NL A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 / (709) 753-5799 (home) .