Re-Reading Sappho
Subtitle: Reception and Transmission (Classics and Contemporary Thought, 3)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780520206038
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Lesbos Island; Theory, etc; Greek influences; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Greek islands; Ancient and Classical; History / Ancient / General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Women and literature; Sappho; Greece; Poetry; Criticism and interpretation; History; History and criticism; Literature, Modern; Love poetry, Greek
First sentence: As everyone knows, Sappho fell in love with Phaon the very first time she saw him, when he took off almost all his clothes to participate in the wrestling competition in the athletic games at Mytilene.