Stung With Love: Poems and Fragments
150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This title covers this surviving texts that...
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150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This title covers this surviving texts that consists of fragmented body of lyric poetry.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140455571 (0140455574)
ASIN: 140455574
Publish date: October 27th 2009
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Classic Literature,
Poetry,
Greece,
Glbt,
Queer,
Ancient,
Lesbian
This book collects the entire known surviving works of the Greek poet, Sappho, who managed to cause her native island of Lesbos to become permanently associated with female homosexuality and have her own name modified into an adjective. Unfortunately for such an influential woman, her extant works s...
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