Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

Name: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780140455571-N
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By Sappho

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More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are 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. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 160
Release Date:: 2009-08-06
Publication Date:: 2009-08-06
Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0140455574
ISBN13:: 9780140455571
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Maximum Reading Age:: 99
Weight:: 124 g
Height:: 12.3 cm
Width:: 19.5 cm
Thickness:: 1.3 cm

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