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The love songs of Sappho / translated with an essay by Paul Roche ; introduction by Page DuBois.
- Title
- The love songs of Sappho / translated with an essay by Paul Roche ; introduction by Page DuBois.
- Author
- Sappho
- Publication
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PA4408.E5 R63 1998 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Roche, Paul, 1916-2007
- Description
- 251 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, her poems survive only in fragments, following religious conspiracies to silence her. This excellent translation includes Roche's brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho."
- Series Statement
- Literary classics
- Uniform Title
- Works. English. 1998
- Literary classics (Amherst, N.Y.)
- Alternative Title
- Works. 1998
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Translations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Page DuBois -- Portrait of Sappho / Paul Roche -- The Love songs -- Overtures of loving -- Petitions and observations -- Converse -- Epithalamia -- The Taut tongue -- Memory and valediction -- Appendix : Some notes on the dilemma of translating Sappho.
- ISBN
- 157392251X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98038950^
- OCLC
- 39714221
- SCSB-10733720
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library