Whether a scholar of the classics or an admirer of fine poetry, this is the only Kindle version of Sappho's work that presents each fragment in the original Greek alongside a concise brand new English translation. A brief biography is also included, as well as an Ancient Greek pronunciation section, allowing you to read aloud and experience the true beauty of Sappho's original text. * new translation of the surviving fragments * includes the recent 2005 discovery of a near complete poem by Sappho. * table of contents to navigate between poems * brief biography to Sappho and her work * UPDATED with two other translations of Sappho's poems Introduction 2011 DUAL TEXT TRANSLATION by Peter Russell 1907 TRANSLATION by Bliss Carman 1910 TRANSLATION by John Myers O’hara Please visit www.delphiclassics.com for more information on our other titles.
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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
