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1	Sappho: A New Translation more books like this by Sappho, Mary Barnard (Translator), Dudley Fitts (Foreword by) add to wishlist These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.49! \| SVS
2	If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Anne Carson (Translator) add to wishlist From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a splendid new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. "If Not, Winter" brings to life an extraordinary ancient poet through the efforts of an empathic contemporary poet. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $9.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Poetry of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Jim Powell (Translator) add to wishlist Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted ... see all copies from $7.77! new only from $13.61! \| SVS
4	Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator), William E McCulloh (Epilogue by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.57! new only from $5.95!
5	Poems and Fragments more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist This title is a new Sappho by a master 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...". see all copies from $8.90! new only from $33.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Sappho: A New Translation more books like this by Mary Bernard, Mary Barnard, Sappho add to wishlist The hundred poems and fragments here translated into modern English constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives, and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95! \| first editions
7	The Love Songs of Sappho more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist Passionate and breathtaking, Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned immortal verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments ... see all copies from $2.08! new only from $8.16! \| first editions
8	Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric & Women Poets of Ancient Greece more books like this by Sappho, Professor Diane Rayor (Translator), W R Johnson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.94! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Greek Lyric, I, Sappho and Alcaeus more books like this by Sappho, David A Campbell (Translator), Alcaeus add to wishlist This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included are the principal testimonia, the ancients' reports on the lives and ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
10	Sappho: Poems and Fragments more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist see all copies from $12.29! new only from $12.29! \| first editions
11	Poems more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J.M. Edmonds, who filled in many of Sappho's fragment with his own Greek lines. In Professor ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $6.78! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Sappho: Poems and Fragments Translated more books like this by Josephine Balmer (Translator), Sappho add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.65!
13 view cover	Sappho more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist The most celebrated lyric poet of the sixth century BCE, Sappho left behind two intact poems and nearly one hundred fragments, and the mystery surrounding her life has fascinated people for centuries. This unabridged miniature edition contains virtually all of Sappho's surviving poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.63! \| SVS
14	Art of Loving Women: The Poetry of Sappho more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
15	Sappho, a Garland: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Jim Powell (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $68.88! \| first editions \| SVS
16	The Love Songs of Sappho more books like this by Paul Roche (Translator), Sappho, Page DuBois (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
17 view cover	The Complete Poems of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator) add to wishlist Sappho's thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years - certainly a record for poetry of any kind - and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, ... see all copies from $9.71! new only from $9.71! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta more books like this by Edgar Lobel (Editor), D. L. Page add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
19 view cover	Khmer Costumes and Ornaments: Of the Devatas of Angkor Wat more books like this by Sappho Marchal, Merrily P Hansen (Translator) add to wishlist Sappho Marchal's fine line drawings present the myriad details of ornament and costume depicted on the stone reliefs of Angkor Wat with a clarity that could not be captured, even then, on film. see all copies from $10.28! new only from $10.28! \| SVS
20 view cover	Sappho: The Poems more books like this by Sappho, Sasha Newborn (Translator), Jeanne Morgan (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
21 view cover	Poems of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator) add to wishlist This new edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid contemporary translation that captures the sparseness and intensity of Sappho's line. Previous translations have suffered from the inclusion of the translator's own added lines. In Professor Barnstone's brilliant translation, Sappho's work is presented as we have ... see all copies from $3.48!
22	Sappho Says--: Poems and Fragments of Sappho of Lesbos by Sappho add to wishlist see all copies from $19.93!
23 view cover	Poems by Sappho more books like this by Sappho add to wishlist It was you, Atthis, who said "Sappho, if you will not get up and let us look at you I shall never love you again! see all copies from $7.50! new only from $11.77! \| SVS
24	Sappho Fragments by Sappho, Sherri Williams (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.95!
25 view cover	Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission more books like this by Sappho, Ellen Greene (Editor) add to wishlist One of two volumes drawing attention to Sappho's relevance as a poet, this text examines the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the remains of Sappho's poetry, and considers this in context of changing sensibilities and cultural norms about gender and female authorship. see all copies from $15.00! first editions

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