The love songs of Sappho

Description:

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."

subjects: Translations into English,  Poetry,  Greek Love poetry,  Women,  Poetry (poetic works by one author)

People: Sappho

Places: Greece,  Lesbos Island (Greece)