![]() ![]() Itself to her and her home island of Lesbos, to the point where our words forįemale same-sex eros have come from her. Relationships with women, and a whole long history of legend has attached Like all "portraits," it is an artist's conception, as there are no known true portraits of her.Ī certain amount of lurid attention, because a few of her poems seem to beĪddressed romantically to women, she was believed to have had close ![]() One appealing thing about the ChristianĬoncept of eternal life is the chance to visit the eternal library and read all Between library burnings by religiousįundamentalists, collateral damages from political wars, the intentionalįorgetting of “pagan” writings during the Middle Ages, and the ravages of timeĪnd decay, we now have only a small fraction In fact, the loss of so much of the writings of theĪncient world is depressing. Moments of beauty shining through, but most of what she wrote is gone forever.Īnd that is achingly sad. Through the collection, I was struck with a tremendous sense of loss. Thus create a sense of space and absence. Greek and English presented in a way to illustrate the layout of the page, and ![]() Her poetry, alas), by a translator with a keen ear for poetry, with both the ![]() What’s not to like? All of Sappho’s known fragments (which is all we have of This hardback in excellent shape at a library sale, I snapped it up. ![]()
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