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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, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections. Distinguished poet and lecturer Paul Roche's translation of The Love Songs of Sappho is enhanced with his brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho," as well as a lucid historical introduction by celebrated feminist and classicist Page duBois.
DilaraThank you! That was a fantastic article - clearer and more informative than the introduction provided in the version of the Poems of Sappho I read last year!
That's quite a Sapphic haul you have here, by the way!2y
TheBookHippie@Dilara I thought the same thing regarding the article! Gotta love the library! I‘m trying to decide what to buy for my library as well as read it all. She fascinates me.2y
TheBookHippie@Butterfinger I started last year a little and then when you all picked Greece I was excited to use it to learn more. I‘ve used the month to read and study her.2y
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That's quite a Sapphic haul you have here, by the way! 2y