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Come Close: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 74 by Sappho
Category: Classic Fiction
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful...' Sensual, sun-soaked verse on love and the gods in ancient Greece, from the poet named 'the tenth Muse' by Plato. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pen ...Show more
Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus by Sappho; Alcaeus; David A. Campbell (Edited and Translated by)
Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testi ...Show more
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho' s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged ...Show more
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (PB) by Sappho; Anne Carson
Category: Poetry
If Not, Winter irresistibly combines the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson in what is sure to become the standard translation of Sappho for our time. Presented with the Greek on facing pages, her verses appear here as if on the ragged ...Show more
Sappho by Sappho
Category: Poetry
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of "Sappho" that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct - the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's ver ...Show more
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Sappho
Category: History
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, notably, five stanzas of ...Show more
Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments by Sappho — Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Category: Poetry
In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not included in the original edition, as well as the new poems discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter material yields fresh insights into Sappho's representat ...Show more
Sappho: Poems & Fragments by SAPPHO
Category: Poetry
The Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greatest women poets, but often as the greatest woman poet in ...Show more
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
Category: Poetry
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 her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
The Love Songs of Sappho by Paul Sappho; Roche
Category: Fiction | Series: Literary Classics