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Sappho

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ISBN 10: 0520011171 ISBN 13: 9780520011175

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1958

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The hundred poems and fragments here translated into modern English constitute all of Sappho that survives, and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Sappho gives us flashes of vivid comment and description - forthright attacks on her enemies, diologues with her friends, and exasperated exchanges with Aphrodite, the goddess who was both enemy and ally. The poems are highly personal and emotional portrayals of the world she lived in twenty-five hundred years ago. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct. As a result, she has rendered the beloved poet's verse, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.

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• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1958
• ISBN 10: 0520011171
• ISBN 13: 9780520011175
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 114
• Redattore: Barnard Mary