More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after...
This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne Fragment. In a new essay on these additions she discusses the issues raised in...
Plato hailed her as "the Tenth Muse," and 2,500 years later her voice remains dazzling as well as direct and honest. Sappho, a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, wrote verse that sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. Praised for their simplicity and sincerity,...
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems, fragments, single words - and,...
Poems By Sappho is a collection of poems written by the ancient Greek poet Sappho, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets of all time. The book includes a selection of her surviving works, which were originally composed on the island of Lesbos in the 6th century...
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""Poems By Sappho"" is a collection of poems written by the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Sappho was a highly respected poet in her time, and her work has had a lasting impact on the world of literature. This collection includes a variety of her poems, ranging from love poems to...
The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and...
Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific...
Poems By Sappho is a collection of works by the ancient Greek poet Sappho, translated into English. Sappho is considered one of the most important poets of the ancient world, and her works are renowned for their beauty, passion, and emotional depth. The book includes a range...