Reading Sappho
Subtitle: Contemporary Approaches (Classics and Contemporary Thought, 2)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780520201958
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Women and literature; Lesbos Island (Greece); Greek Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Ancient Greece; Ancient and Classical; History / Ancient / General; Greece; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Lesbos Island; Love poetry, Greek; Sappho
First sentence: At times, Sapphic poetry-most particularly the amatory lyric of Sappho-has been injured by its own extensive success.