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Sappho
Birth date: December 29, 0611
Died: December 30, 0569
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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 5 years ago
someone will remember us I say even in another time It's so frustrating to read these fragments. I just want to know what the whole poems were.
Nicole Reads
Nicole Reads rated it 7 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.
Dog-Eared Pages
Dog-Eared Pages rated it 10 years ago
Imagine if the majority of Shakespeare’s plays and poetry had disappeared long ago. It’s not a far-fetched proposition, when you think about it; all of Shakespeare’s personal writing and manuscripts are missing, and several of the plays are missing (Cardenio, Love’s Labors Found, etc). However, a ...
SJane
SJane rated it 11 years ago
It makes me uneasy to be underwhelmed by a book the rest of the planet rates very highly, but underwhelmed I was. I am neither a Greek scholar nor have I read Sappho previously, so maybe this was the wrong place to start. There were definitely some good fragments in the book, but a lot of the time I...
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 ...
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