Plato hailed her as "the Tenth Muse," and 2,500 years later her voice remains dazzling as well as direct and honest. Sappho, a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, wrote verse that sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. Praised for their simplicity and sincerity, her poems nevertheless evoke powerful and memorable images as well as a sense of unreserved eroticism. Her focus on emotion and individualism sets her work apart from that of her contemporaries, lending it an intimacy that foreshadows modern poetry. Details about Sappho's life are largely unknown; she is thought to have lived sometime between 612–570 B.C.E., and her poetry was read and admired throughout the ancient world. Today her poems survive in fragmentary form, and she is best known as a symbol of female homosexuality, having inspired the terms "sapphic" and "lesbian." This concise collection of her surviving works features an informative Introduction by translator J. M. Edmonds.

Poems of Sappho (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Edmonds, John Maxwell

SAPPHO

Poetry

Dover Publications

The Characters of Theophrastus

Edmonds, J. M.

V. Austen, G. E.

History

BiblioLife

Austen, G. E. V.

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Lyra Graeca; Being the Remains of All the Greek Lyrik Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus Excepting Pind (Latin Edition)

Ancient Civilizations

Europe

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The Characters of Theophrastus (Ancient Greek Edition)

Theophrastus, John Maxwell

Austen, George Ernest Vaughan

Nabu Press

An Introduction to Comparative Philology for Classical Students

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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Daphnis & Chloe

Gaselee, Stephen

Longus

Arts & Photography

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