Sappho (Understanding Classics)

by: Page DuBois (Author)

Publisher: I.B.Tauris

Publication Date: 2015-09-30

Language: English

Print Length: 192 pages

ISBN-10: 1784533602

ISBN-13: 9781784533601

Book Description

Offering nuanced readings of Sappho’s poems, written in an archaic Aeolic dialect, DuBois skillfully draws out their sharp images and rhythmic melody. She further discusses the exciting discovery of a new verse fragment in 2004, and the ways in which Sappho influenced Catullus, Horace and Ovid, as well as later writers and painters.

Editorial Reviews

Offering nuanced readings of Sappho’s poems, written in an archaic Aeolic dialect, DuBois skillfully draws out their sharp images and rhythmic melody. She further discusses the exciting discovery of a new verse fragment in 2004, and the ways in which Sappho influenced Catullus, Horace and Ovid, as well as later writers and painters.

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