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Sappho

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Works: 1,515 works in 2,909 publications in 40 languages and 68,023 library holdings
Genres: Broadsides  Greek poetry 
Roles: Librettist, Lyricist, Other, Dedicatee, Editor, Arranger, Originator
Classifications: pa4408.e5, 884.01
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189 editions published between and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,550 libraries worldwide
[The] hundred poems and fragments here translated into modern English constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives, and effectively ring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet.-Back cover.
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17 editions published between and 2003 in English and Danish and held by 975 libraries worldwide
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21 editions published between and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 743 libraries worldwide
Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry - among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance - that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. [In this book, the translator] give[s] us a virtuoso embodiment of Sappho's voice, whose telltale charm, authority, immediacy, directness, intensity, and sudden changes of tone are among the hallmarks of his masterly translation. [It] introduces us to the world of Sappho, discusses questions surrounding the transmission of her manuscripts, offers advice on reading these texts, and concludes with an enlightening discussion of same-sex desire in Sappho.-Back cover.
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24 editions published between and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 549 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 1994 in English and held by 546 libraries worldwide
Offers a new translation of the approximately one-twelfth of Sappho's total writing that has survived to the present, and includes brief essays on her life, writing style, and work.
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8 editions published between and 1982 in English and held by 448 libraries worldwide
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26 editions published between and 1966 in English and held by 432 libraries worldwide
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16 editions published in in English and held by 403 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1968 in Latin and Greek, Ancient and held by 373 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 356 libraries worldwide
In this translation of the Greek poetess's work, Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious.
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5 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 281 libraries worldwide
Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 B.C.E.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, her poems survive only in fragments, following religious conspiracies to silence her. This excellent translation includes Roche's brilliant essay, "Portrait of Sappho".
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23 editions published between and 1994 in French and Greek, Ancient and held by 247 libraries worldwide
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10 editions published between and 1992 in English and held by 216 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 160 libraries worldwide
Collects the poems and fragments of the ancient Greek poet's surviving work, displaying the wide variety of themes in her work, from amorous songs celebrating adolescent females to poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, and remembrance.
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10 editions published between and 1996 in 4 languages and held by 157 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 1927 in Greek, Ancient and English and held by 147 libraries worldwide
 
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Alternative Names

controlled identity Sapho

Saffo
Saffo, da Mitilene
Safo
Safona
Sapfo
Sapho
Sapho, poétesse antique
Sapʻo
Sappho
Sapphus
Сафо
سيفو
سيفو
Сафо
Languages
English (1,392)
German (382)
Italian (304)
French (294)
Greek, Ancient (230)
Latin (187)
Undetermined (175)
Greek, Modern (124)
Spanish (74)
Multiple languages (37)
Russian (35)
No Linguistic content (24)
Polish (19)
Portuguese (17)
Danish (14)
Dutch (13)
Catalan (10)
Japanese (9)
Finnish (8)
Turkish (7)
Swedish (6)
Ukrainian (6)
Hebrew (5)
Czech (4)
Yiddish (4)
Arabic (3)
Chinese (3)
Norwegian (3)
Urdu (2)
Serbian (2)
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Galician (1)
Romanian (1)
Korean (1)
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