Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Diane J. Rayor, Diane J. Rayor (Translator), W. R. Johnson (Foreword by)Publish date:1991-08-22Pages:234
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520073364ISBN-10:520073363UPC:9780520073364Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:8.22 x 6.51 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCV2XH26X4
Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece
Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520073364ISBN-10:520073363UPC:9780520073364Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:8.22 x 6.51 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCV2XH26X4
Diane Rayor is Professor in the Classics Department, Grand Valley State University, Michigan. She is co-translator, with Stanley Lombardo, of Callimachus (Johns Hopkins 1988). W. R. Johnson is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago and the author of, among other works, The Idea of Lyric (California 1982).
Publisher: University of California Press
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Diane J. Rayor, Diane J. Rayor (Translator), W. R. Johnson (Foreword by)
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