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.
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.
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Sappho (Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 110 ● ISBN 9780880043342 ● File size 3.8 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Translator John Myers O’hara ● Publisher Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing ● City Moscow ● Country RU ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8723401 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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