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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
By Freeman, Philip
- ISBN
- 9780393242232 9780393242249
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on January 1, 2016 | Arts and Humanities
Sappho, the female lyric poet from the island of Lesbos in ancient Greece, succeeded as a writer when women were seen as chattel—wool weavers, housekeepers, and incubators of heirs. The passage of time rendered her work incomplete, with only remnants surviving on fragile fragments of papyrus, yet a fascination with her words and with her life persists in contemporary ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
