Sappho is the greatest of the Greek lyric poets and one of the very few women poets of the ancient world whom we know by name. In translation Willis Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase where the meaning is obvious.
Willis Barnstone has augmented his widely used anthology of the Greek lyric poets with eleven newly attributed Sappho poems, making this the most complete offering of Sappho in English. Two new sections--'Sources and Notes' and 'Sappho: Her Life and Poems'--provide the student with the classical sources and an appraisal of this greatest of Western ...
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