Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Sappho

Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

Sappho with Diane J. Rayor (Translator), André Lardinois

nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ poetry reflective slow-paced

184 pages | first published -600

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Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems...
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reflective 80%
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