The love songs of Sappho
By: translated with an essay by Paul Roche ; introduction by Page DuBois.
Contributors: Roche, Paul, 1927-
Series: Literary classics; Literary classics (Amherst, N.Y.)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Sappho -- Translations into English.; Love poetry, Greek -- Translations into English.; Women -- Greece -- Poetry.; Lesbos Island (Greece) -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, her poems survive only in fragments, following religious conspiracies to silence her. This excellent translation includes Roche's brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251).