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notes

1. Barbara Hughes Fowler, trans., Archaic Greek Poetry: An Anthology (Madison: University of
   Wisconsin Press, 1992), 53.


2. Fowler, Archaic Greek Poetry, 106.


3. This and all subsequent translations are the author’s.


4. “[Love, how I’d love to slip down to the pond]”, trans. John L. Foster, in The Norton Anthology
   of World Masterpieces, vol. 1, Beginnings to 1650, ed. Maynard Mack (New York: Norton, 1995), 58.


5. On the meaning of nan, see the detailed discussion in Chen Zhi, “From Standardization to
   Localization: Reconsidering the Section Divisions of the Book of Songs” (Ph.D. diss., University of
   Wisconsin, 1999), 283–284.


6. Fowler, Archaic Greek Poetry, 133.


7. See the excellent discussion by Chow Tse-tsung, “The Childbirth Myth and Ancient Chinese
   Medicine, a Study of Aspects of the Wu Tradition,” in Ancient China: Studies in Early Civilization,
   ed. David T. Roy and Tsuen-hsuin Tsien (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1978), 43–89,
   especially 47–53.


8. Sima Qian, Shiji (Records of the Grand Scribe) (Beijing: Zhonghua zhuju, 1959), 4.113–114.

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