Published by Carol Publishing, United States, 1993
Seller: Joseph M Zunno, ROY, WA, U.S.A.
soft. Condition: See Pic.
Published by Lyle Stuart, 1988
ISBN 10: 0821620002 ISBN 13: 9780821620007
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. 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 voice, whose telltale charm, authority, immediacy, directness, intensity, and sudden changes of tone are among the hallmarks of his masterly translation.Pamela Gordon introduces us to the world of Sappho, discusses questions surrounding the transmission of her manuscripts, offers advice on reading these texts, and concludes with an enlightening discussion of same-sex desire in Sappho.
Published by Meadowland Books, Secaucus, NJ, U.S.A., 1988
ISBN 10: 0821620002 ISBN 13: 9780821620007
Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, Canada
Laminated Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 117 pp. With maps, b&w illustrations, glossary, chronological table, select bibliography, and key to the fragments. Covers curled, light edge and corner wear, else an excellent copy. "The first, and arguably the finest lesbian poet, Sappho wrote in the sixth century BC, and has remained an inspiration and influence on poets and lovers ever since.".