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Sappho: Poems and Fragments
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Product Description
This title is a new Sappho by a master poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: "ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...".
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #379238 in Books
- Published on: 2002-03
- Original language: Greek
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
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About the Author
Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.
Customer Reviews
"And for you I make an offering of a white goat"
In Antiquity decent women were supposed to work in the kitchen and to raise their children, nothing more, but there were exceptions. More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is Turkey today.. (She went in exile for a short period due to political upheavel).
Sappho was already famous in Antiquity. Plato called her the tenth Muze and someone said her poetry was "as refreshing as a morning breeze".
Some of the best poems of Sappho are those that describe her loneliness.
(#62)
"But if you are my friend,
Go to a younger woman's bed,
For I will not endure an affair
In which I am older than the man."
(#73)
"The moon has set,
And the Pleiades
Midnight
The hour has gone by
I sleep alone."
