From the Publisher's note to this edition: This edition is intended to introduce the work of Sappho to the modern reader. It does not attempt the definitive text ... In the hope that the reader may appreciate how much - or how little - of the available text required tentative reconstruction to complete the poem, the translations are presented with the Greek from which they were derived on facing pages.
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Work of Greek lyric poet Sappho, noted for its passionate and erotic celebration of the beauty of young women and men, after flourit circa 600 BC and survives only in fragments. Ancient history poetry texts associate Sappho (Σαπφώ or Ψάπφω) sometimes with the city of Mytilene or suppose her birth in Eresos, another city, sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC. She died around 570 BC. People throughout antiquity well knew and greatly admired the bulk, now lost, but her immense reputation endured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho
