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markbell1
markbell1 rated it 7 years ago
Perhaps second only to Shakespeare and Moliere in depicting his characters' inner life on stage. This translation is as good as a strictly literal one in giving us the playwright's voice while maintaining his meaning.
Nicole Reads
Nicole Reads rated it 8 years ago
You may forget butLet me tell youthis: someone insome future timewill think of us Beautiful, painful, evocative, sensual and lush are a few ways to describe Sappho's poetry. Even if we only have incomplete and broken fragments of her poetry, there is no absence of emotion.
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
Sappho is the great lyric poet of antiquity. Plato called her the "tenth muse." Her poems were preserved until nearly A.D 1000, at least according to A Book of Woman Poets, "when a wrathful church destroyed whatever it could find. In 1073 her writings were publicly burned in Rome and Constantinople ...
mayhap
mayhap rated it 13 years ago
I was just looking for one bit and then ended up rereading it all. Because Sappho.
Flying Kick-a-pow!
Flying Kick-a-pow! rated it 17 years ago
i like sophocles' writing style, and i like the use of symbolism in oedipus. i'm not really so fond of the story though. it's a very strange plot...
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