Re-Reading Sappho
Subtitle: Reception and Transmission (Classics and Contemporary Thought, 3)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780520206021
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Women's studies; Women and literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Greek Literature; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Sociology; Ancient Greece; Literature, Modern; Ancient and Classical; History; History / Ancient / General; Influence; Sappho; Greece; Greek influences; History and criticism; Lesbos Island; Love poetry, Greek; Theory, etc
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.