That would be most welcome! Are you good with the Saturday slot?
ETA: note there may be some overlap with what's being posted Monday, though I believe rainjoy's focusing more on bits of cultural context relevant to translating the original text, and it sounds like you're thinking along the lines of the historical context in which that text was composed.
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Date: 2013-09-12 09:17 am (UTC)ETA: note there may be some overlap with what's being posted Monday, though I believe
Would you have any interest in supplementing / contrasting that latter with some discussion of the context of the Anne Carson translation? Publisher's overview of Carson's collected Sappho translations here; see also this NYT magazine profile of Carson & her bio at the Poetry Foundation.