The Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho
Called the Tenth Muse by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections. Distinguished poet and lecturer Paul Roche's translation of The Love Songs of Sappho is enhanced with his brilliant essay, Portrait of Sappho, as well as a lucid historical introduction by celebrated feminist and classicist Page duBois.Sappho was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, and little is known about her life. Her poetry was known and adored across the ancient world, and she is thought to have lived between 612 and 570 B.C.E. Sappho is most recognized as a symbol of female homosexuality, having inspired the phrases sapphic and lesbian, and her poetry survive in fragmentary form today.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781573922517 |
| ISBN 10 | 157392251X |
| Title | The Love Songs of Sappho |
| Author | Sappho |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prometheus Books |
| Year published | 1999-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 251 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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