Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

EnglishPaperback / softback
Sappho
Penguin Books Ltd
EAN: 9780140455571
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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 consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance - that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.
EAN 9780140455571
ISBN 0140455574
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date August 6, 2009
Pages 160
Language English
Dimensions 198 x 129 x 9
Country United Kingdom
Authors Sappho
Translators Poochigian Aaron
Series Penguin Classics