Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho

Love Songs of Sappho

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Love Songs of Sappho by Sappho

Prometheus Books

Love Songs of Sappho

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Prometheus Books
ISBN:
9781573922517
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
251
Authors:
Sappho
Published Date:
1999-01-01
Language:
English
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About Sappho

Sappho (c. 630–570 BCE) was born on the island of Lesbos and is among the earliest lyric poets of the Western tradition whose work survives, though only in fragments. Ancient sources credited her with nine books of poetry; the most complete surviving pieces are the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Tithonus poem, the latter reconstructed from a papyrus identified in 2004. Plato is said to have called her the Tenth Muse. The Sapphic stanza, a metrical form associated with her, was later adopted by Catullus and Horace. The word "lesbian" derives from the name of her birthplace.

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