Authors:Sappho,  Anne Carso,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: sappho, fragments, winter
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-08-12
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0375724516
ISBN-13: 9780375724510

Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most f

Authors:Sappho, Margaret Reynolds,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: companion, sappho
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-06-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0312295103
ISBN-13: 9780312295103

Born around 630 BC on the Greek Island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. We see her image change, recreated in Ovid’s poetry and Boccaccio’s tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, and H.D., in

Author: Sappho
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: sappho, poems
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419142097
ISBN-13: 9781419142093

It was you, Atthis, who said "Sappho, if you will not get up and let us look at you I shall never love you again!

Author: Sappho
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: translation, new, sappho
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 1999-12-08
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0520223128
ISBN-13: 9780520223127

These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard’s translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet’s verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.

Authors:Sappho, Alcaeus,
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Keywords: classical, library, loeb, alcaeus, lyric, sappho, greek
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0674991575
ISBN-13: 9780674991576

This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testimonia, the ancients’ reports on the lives and work of the two poets. The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in medieval manuscripts, and few complete poems remain. Later

Author: Yopie Pri
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: sappho, victorian
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-02-16
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0691059195
ISBN-13: 9780691059198

A remarkable new addition to the fields of gender studies, classical studies, and modern poetics, Yopie Prins’s Victorian Sappho sends off many casually brilliant sparks, with a broad appeal that easily transcends disciplines. "Invoked as a lyric muse in antiquity and mythologized for posterity by Ovid," Sappho has always been "a figment of the literary imagination." Prins traces the 19th-century recovery of new fragments of Sappho’s poems and the allure they held for classical philologists, who attempted to piece together not only her lyrics but her absent, impossible self--the fe

Author: Sappho
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: fragments, poems
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0872205916
ISBN-13: 9780872205918

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Stanley Lombardo’s translations give us a virtuoso embodiment of Sappho’s voic