Sappho's Lyre PDF book is popular Literary Criticism book written by Diane J. Rayor. The book was released by Univ of California Press on 1991-08-22 with total hardcover pages 236. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Sappho's Lyre by Diane J. Rayor in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries compos
"The translations are excellent--at once literal, graceful, and idiomatic--and the poems have been selected in a way that is unparalleled in any comparable coll
Faint though the voices of the women of Greek and Roman antiquity may be in some cases, their sound, if we listen carefully enough, can fill many of the gaps an
Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translato
This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced
