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Poems and Fragments

Poems and Fragments

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Product Code:
2196-01
ISBN
978-619-01-0311-0
SKU
18.0229
Year
31-08-2018
Translation
from Ancient Greek: Rayka Nikolova
Pages
64
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.21 kg
Collection
Колекция "Световни поети"
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Poetry

Sappho

Sappho

Sappho (c. 630–c.570 BC) was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung and accompanied by a lyre. Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is extant has survived only in fragmentary form, except for one complete poem – the "Ode to Aphrodite". As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iamb…

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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.

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