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Author : Mary Mills Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sappho and the Island of Lesbos written by Mary Mills Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Mills Patrick
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297856679
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Sappho and the Island of Lesbos written by Mary Mills Patrick and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Mary Mills Patrick
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230440026
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Sappho and the Island of Lesbos written by Mary Mills Patrick and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II SOME OF SAPPHO'S CONTEMPORARIES AFTER the heroic or legendary period of Greek history, of which Homer and Hesiod are the chief exponents, and which ended about the beginning of the first Olympiad, there came a period which extended over three centuries, in which the real thought-life of the Greeks properly speaking begins. The Greek mind is awakening. It is a time of great political disturbances; the heroic monarchy by right divine becomes the oligarchy, the oligarchy the tyranny, and the tyranny is in many cases succeeded by the democracy or constitutional monarchy. Colonization from the mother cities of Greece has begun in Italy, Sicily, Africa, along the Gulf of Lyons, in Asia Minor, and the islands of the ALgean. The law-givers arise; Thebes receives a constitution, and Lycurgos and Solon form the states of Sparta and Athens. The Seven Sages are foremost in diffusing wisdom throughout the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean. The epic is being supplanted by the beginnings of lyric, satiric, moral, and philosophic poetry. Prose begins to be cultivated, and the drama has its inception, although the poets are the leaders in the thought of the Greeks until the era of Sokrates. No great light ever appears alone, but there are always lesser lights before and after, like the dawn and twilight of a full day; Sappho was a genius, but she was not the only one of her age, and had many renowned contemporaries. In speaking of them we wish to include those who immediately preceded and followed her, and those who prefigured the life of her day or were the product of it. Sappho's greatest contemporary from AKCHAIC UNDRAFED FIGURES PROM THE CREEK ISLANDS, DATE UNKNOWN, l'KOBABLY 7TH CENT. B.C. Nnv in the British Museum the point of view...
Author : Sappho
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616141050
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Love Songs of Sappho written by Sappho and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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". Illustrations.
Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079663
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (796 download)
Download or read book The Laughter of Aphrodite written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholar, historian, novelist, and professor of classics at the University of Texas (Austin), Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho. The surviving fragments of Sappho's poetry reveal a mature woman of unflinching honesty. Sappho and her daily life on the island of ancient Lesbos are brought vividly to life via Green's extraordinary talent. This work was first published in 1965.
Author : Joseph Braddock
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sappho's Island written by Joseph Braddock and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1970 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey M. Duban
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
ISBN 13 : 1905570805
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Lesbian Lyre written by Jeffrey M. Duban and published by CLAIRVIEW BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary. Shrouded in mystery, she is nonetheless repeatedly translated and discussed – no, appropriated – by all. Sappho has most recently undergone a variety of treatments by agenda-driven scholars and so-called poet-translators with little or no knowledge of Greek. Classicist-translator Jeffrey Duban debunks the postmodernist scholarship by which Sappho is interpreted today and offers translations reflecting the charm and elegant simplicity of the originals. Duban provides a reader-friendly overview of Sappho’s times and themes, exploring her eroticism and Greek homosexuality overall. He introduces us to Sappho’s highly cultured island home, to its lyre-accompanied musical legends, and to the fabled beauty of Lesbian women. Not least, he emphasizes the proximity of Lesbos to Troy, making the translation and enjoyment of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey a further focus. More than anything else, argues Duban, it is free verse and its rampant legacy – and no two persons more than Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound – that bear responsibility for the ruin of today’s classics in translation, to say nothing of poetry in the twentieth century. Beyond matters of reflection for classicists, Duban provides a far-ranging beginner’s guide to classical literature, with forays into Spenser and Milton, and into the colonial impulse of Virgil, Spenser, and the West at large.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113991622X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Sappho written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems, fragments, single words - and, notably, five stanzas of a poem that came to light in 2014. Also included are new additions to five fragments from the latest discovery, and a nearly complete poem published in 2004. The power of Sappho's poetry - her direct style, rich imagery, and passion - is apparent even in these remnants. Diane Rayor's translations of Greek poetry are graceful and poetic, modern in diction yet faithful to the originals. The full range of Sappho's voice is heard in these poems about desire, friendship, rivalry, family, and 'passion for the light of life'. In the introduction and notes, internationally respected Sappho scholar André Lardinois presents plausible reconstructions of Sappho's life and work, the importance of the recent discoveries in understanding the performance of her songs, and the story of how these fragments survived.
Author : Sappho
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3985941238
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Poems of Sappho written by Sappho and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poems of Sappho Sappho - Sappho is widely recognized as one of the great poets of world literature, an author whose works have caused her readers to repeat in many different forms Strabo's amazed epithet when he wrote that she could only be called "a marvel."The reception of Sappho's poetry even through the twentieth century offers a case study of the conflicts induced by the sexual preferences she seemingly alludes to in her verse.Little is known with certainty about the life of Sappho, or Psappha in her native Aeolic dialect. She was born probably about 620 B.C. to an aristocratic family on the island of Lesbos during a great cultural flowering in the area.In antiquity Sappho was regularly counted among the greatest of poets and was often referred to as "the Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet.Praised for their simplicity and sincerity, the poems of Sappho evoke powerful and memorable images through her focus on emotion and individualism that foreshadows modern poetry.
Author : Sappho
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307556980
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book If Not, Winter written by Sappho and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.” "Sappho's verse has been elevated to new heights in [this] gorgeous translation." --The New York Times "Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator....Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth." --Los Angeles Times
Author : Sappho
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048681727X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Poems of Sappho written by Sappho and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tenth Muse" sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. This concise collection of the ancient Greek poet's surviving works was assembled and translated by a distinguished classicist.
Author : Sappho
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140455574
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Stung with Love written by Sappho and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, and remembrance.
Author : Sappho
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141931256
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho written by Sappho and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jane McIntosh Snyder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231099943
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho written by Jane McIntosh Snyder and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine Sappho's poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. Snyder provides close readings of the surviving examples of Sappho's poetry, occasionally presenting comparative material from other ancient Greek poets. The original Greek text is included in an appendix.
Author : Sappho
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872205918
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Poems and Fragments written by Sappho and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'
Author : Ellen Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206038
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Re-Reading Sappho written by Ellen Greene and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.
Author : Margaret Williamson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674789128
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Sappho's Immortal Daughters written by Margaret Williamson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 B.C.E. She composed lyric poetry, only fragments of which survive. And she was--and is--the most highly regarded woman poet of Greek and Roman antiquity. Little more than this can be said with certainty about Sappho, and yet a great deal more is said. Her life, so little known, is the stuff of legends; her poetry, the source of endless speculation. This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have risen around her. It is an expert and thoroughly engaging introduction to one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of antiquity.Margaret Williamson conducts us through ancient representations of Sappho, from vase paintings to appearances in Ovid, and traces the route by which her work has reached us, shaped along the way by excavators, editors, and interpreters. She goes back to the poet's world and time to explore perennial questions about Sappho: How could a woman have access to the public medium of song? What was the place of female sexuality in the public and religious symbolism of Greek culture? What is the sexual meaning of her poems? Williamson follows with a close look at the poems themselves, Sappho's "immortal daughters." Her book offers the clearest picture yet of a woman whose place in the history of Western culture has been at once assured and mysterious.
