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Come Close: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 74 by Sappho
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Category: Classics
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful...' Sensual, sun-soaked verse on love and the gods in ancient Greece, from the poet named 'the tenth Muse' by Plato. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pen ...Show more
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho by Sappho; Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
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 ...Show more
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
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Category: Poetry
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
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