The Love Songs of Sappho - Paperback
by Sappho
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781573922517ISBN-10:157392251XUPC:9781573922517Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.44 x 5.56 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCDQA43287
The Love Songs of 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,...
Series: Literary Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781573922517ISBN-10:157392251XUPC:9781573922517Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.44 x 5.56 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCDQA43287
Sappho (ca. 610-580 BCE) was an ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos, who was known for her lyric poetry (i.e., poetry intended to be sung and accompanied by a lyre). Unfortunately, most of her verses are now lost, and what is extant has survived only in fragmentary form, except for one complete poem - the "Ode to Aphrodite." Little is known of Sappho's life. It is thought that she was...
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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