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Language: en
Pages: 254
Pages: 254
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-28 - Publisher: Prometheus Books
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 L
Language: en
Pages: 102
Pages: 102
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-06 - Publisher: Penguin UK
Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating a
Language: en
Pages: 113
Pages: 113
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-15 - Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
"The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and trans
Language: en
Pages: 106
Pages: 106
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translato
Language: en
Pages: 84
Pages: 84
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-06 - Publisher: Coach House Books
An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road s