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.
- ISBN10 0520011171
- ISBN13 9780520011175
- Publish Date 1 January 1958
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 10 March 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 114
- Language English