Sappho, 9781108926973
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Love, loss, and longing: Hear Sappho’s timeless voice in fragments.

Sappho

a new translation of the complete works

$40.79

  • Paperback

    216 pages

  • Release Date

    2 February 2023

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Summary

Sappho: Fragments of Passion and Song

Sappho, the earliest and most celebrated Greek woman poet, composed her lyrical verses around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. This collection presents all that remains from the original nine papyrus scrolls, meticulously translated to capture the essence of her timeless work.

Included are substantial poems and fragments, featuring three poems discovered in recent decades. Even in these remnants, Sappho’s poetic power shines through—her …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781108926973
ISBN-10:1108926975
Author:Diane J. Rayor, André Lardinois
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:216
Edition:2nd
Release Date:2 February 2023
Weight:300g
Dimensions:215mm x 139mm x 10mm
About The Author

Diane J. Rayor

Diane J. Rayor is Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, where she received the Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service, and the Women’s Impact Award. She was granted the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for translating Euripides’ Helen and served as the University of Colorado’s Roe Green Visiting Theatre Artist for Euripides’ Hecuba. Her published translations include Euripides’ ‘Medea’ (Cambridge, 2013); Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ (Cambridge, 2011); Homeric Hymns (2nd ed. 2014); Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991); and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo, 1988). She is coeditor of Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (2nd ed. 2018). In her thirtieth year of teaching at GVSU she retired from the Classics Department that she co-founded.

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