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Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry -- including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. William E. McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the Greek lyric while Barnstone provides a brief biographical and literary sketch for each poet and adds a substantial introduction to Sappho -- revised for this edition -- complete with notes and sources. A glossary and updated bibliography are included.

Greek poetry --- Sappho --- Sapfo --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos --- Sapho --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho

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"No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity has, down the centuries, ensured a continuing fascination with her work. The ancient edition of her poems, which filled probably nine books and thus over 10,000 lines, did not survive; but the fragments of those poems which have been preserved, both as quotations in authors whose works did outlast antiquity, and on ancient papyrus manuscripts recovered from the sands of Egypt, offer many glimpses of her poetic brilliance"--

Sappho --- Sapfo --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos --- Sapho --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho

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Sappho is celebrated as the supreme ancient Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, and noted also for her vivid participation in a living paganism. Jim Powell's translation features a newly dicovered poem which joins three extant 'complete' poems of Sappho.

Love poetry, Greek --- Greek love poetry --- Greek poetry --- Sappho --- Sapfo --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos --- Sapho --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho --- Translations into English.

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"Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her as 'violet, pure, honey-smiling Sappho'; and that the rhetorician and philosopher Maximus of Tyre saw her, perhaps less enthusiastically, as 'small and dark'. We also know that her 7th/6th century BCE island of Lesbos was riven by tyrannical and aristocratic factionalism and that she was probably exiled to Sicily. Much of the rest is speculative. DuBois suggests that the value of Sappho lies elsewhere: in her remarkable verse, and in the poet's reception - one of the richest of any figure from antiquity. Offering nuanced readings of the poems, written in an archaic Aeolic dialect, DuBois skillfully draws out their sharp images and rhythmic melody. She further discusses the exciting discovery of a new verse fragment in 2004, and the ways in which Sappho influenced Catullus, Horace and Ovid, as well as later writers and painters."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Poets, Greek. --- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval. --- Sappho --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Greek poets --- Sapfo --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos --- Sapho --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho

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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.

Greek poetry --- Poésie grecque --- Translations into English. --- Traductions anglaises --- Sappho --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie grecque --- Greek poetry - Translations into English --- Sappho - Translations into English --- Greek poetry. --- Sappho. --- Greek literature --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Sapfo --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Sapho --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos