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Adonis Aelian Alcaeus ancient Andromache Aphro Aphrodite Apollo Asclepiads Asia Minor Athenaeus Atthis beautiful bride bridegroom Catullus century A.D. Charaxus child Clarendon Press Cleïs complete poem Cypris Cyprus Cythera daughters of Zeus Dawn desire Dialogues Dika Discourse on Method Dissertations XVIII elegiac epithalamia Eros Essays fragmentary fragments girl goddess golden Gongyla Gorgo Graces Greek groom Handbook of Meter Hector Hephaestion Herodotus Horace hymenaios hymn Incertum included Irana island Lesbos Library of Liberal lines Linus Lobel Lydia Lyra Graeca lyre Lyric poet Maximus Maximus of Tyre Medea Melic member of Sappho's Metaphysics Mnasidika mother Muses Mytilene omitted Pamphos Pandion Pausanias Persephone phereis Plato's POEMS OF SAPPHO poet of Lesbos Priam Procne reader referring repetition Sappho Sappho's circle Sappho's name Sappho's poetry seems Socrates song SQG LP stanzas Star suggests tender Thebe things tion trans translation Trojan Trojan War Troy Tyndareus wedding word order Zeus δὲ φέρεις

About the author (1967)

Sappho, whom Plato (see Vols. 3 and 4) called "the tenth Muse," was the greatest of the early Greek lyric poets. She was born at Mytilene on Lesbos and was a member---perhaps the head---of a group of women who honored the Muses and Aphrodite. Her family was aristocratic; it is said that she was married and had a daughter. Her brilliant love lyrics, marriage songs, and hymns to the gods are written in Aeolic dialect in many meters, one of which is named for her---the Sapphic. Mostly fragments survive of the nine books she is thought to have authored. Her verse is simple and direct, exquisitely passionate and vivid. Catullus, Ovid, and Swinburne (see Vol. 1) were among the many later poets she influenced.

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TitlePoems
Volume 214 of Library of the liberal arts
AuthorSappho
Translated bySuzy Q. Groden
PublisherBobbs-Merrill Company, 1967
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedApr 16, 2008
ISBN0672604647, 9780672604645
Length153 pages
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