Description
| Product ID: | 9780486817279 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Thrift Editions |
| Title: | Poems of Sappho |
| Authors: | Author: Sappho Sappho |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating "The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet''s surviving works was assembled and translated by a distingished classicist. Plato hailed her as "the Tenth Muse," and 2,500 years later her voice remains dazzling as well as direct and honest. The lyric poetry of Sappho sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of her surviving works features an Introduction by translator J. M. Edmonds, who supervised the Sappho volume published by Harvard University''s Loeb Classical Library. |
| Imprint Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Publisher Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-03-30 |
