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Sappho, whom Plato (see Vols. 3 and 4) called "the tenth Muse," was the greatest of the early Greek lyric poets. She was born at Mytilene on Lesbos and was a member---perhaps the head---of a group of women who honored the Muses and Aphrodite. Her family was aristocratic; it is said that she was vis mere married and had a daughter. Her brilliant love lyrics, marriage songs, and hymns to the gods are written in Aeolic dialect in many meters, one of which is named for her---the Sapphic. Mostly fragments survive of the nine books she is thought to have authored. Her verse is simple and direct, exquisitely passionate and vivid. Catullus, Ovid, and Swinburne (see Vol. 1) were among the many later poets she influenced. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Sappho

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002) 1,489 eksemplarer
Sappho: A New Translation (0580) 1,154 eksemplarer
Poems and Fragments (1984) 547 eksemplarer
Come Close (0570) 217 eksemplarer
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics) (2009) — Forfatter — 197 eksemplarer
The Complete Poems of Sappho (2009) 130 eksemplarer
Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets (1988) 108 eksemplarer
Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho (2006) 68 eksemplarer
Poesie (1987) 66 eksemplarer
The Songs of Sappho (1891) 55 eksemplarer
The Poetry of Sappho (2007) 41 eksemplarer
Lyrics in the original Greek (1965) 40 eksemplarer
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1905) 38 eksemplarer
Iltatähti, häälaulu (1984) 36 eksemplarer
Safo (Spanish Edition) (1998) 32 eksemplarer
Gedichten (1999) 30 eksemplarer
Le désir (1993) 24 eksemplarer
The Complete Works of Sappho (1973) 22 eksemplarer
Liederen van Lesbos (1995) 20 eksemplarer
Sapfon runoja (1966) 19 eksemplarer
Sappho: The Art of Loving Women (1975) 17 eksemplarer
Liriche e frammenti (2002) 16 eksemplarer
Strophen und Verse (1978) 15 eksemplarer
Complete Poems and Fragments (2000) 14 eksemplarer
Sappho Through English Poetry (1996) 11 eksemplarer
Sappho the Poems: The Poems (1993) 11 eksemplarer
Fragment 31 {Lobel and Page} (1998) 9 eksemplarer
Sappho: A New Rendering (1920) 7 eksemplarer
Eros skakar mig (2013) 7 eksemplarer
Ik verlang en sta in brand (2020) 7 eksemplarer
Poems of Alcman, Sappho, Ibycus (1945) 7 eksemplarer
Safo, poemas y fragmentos (1993) 7 eksemplarer
Lieder : Griechisch und deutsch (1984) 7 eksemplarer
Dikterna och fragmenten (2022) 6 eksemplarer
Sapfo (2003) 6 eksemplarer
Nedir Gene Deli Gonlunu Celen (2014) 6 eksemplarer
Und ich schlafe allein (2013) 6 eksemplarer
Antología (2005) 5 eksemplarer
Fragmanlar (2017) 4 eksemplarer
The Poems of Sappho (1966) 4 eksemplarer
The poems (1989) 4 eksemplarer
Love songs (Mentor book) (1966) 3 eksemplarer
Liebesgedichte (2007) 3 eksemplarer
Alcée, Sapho 3 eksemplarer
Poesías (2017) 3 eksemplarer
Eros ontwortelt mijn hart verzen (2014) 3 eksemplarer
A une aimée absente (1988) 3 eksemplarer
Fragment (2021) 3 eksemplarer
Pieśni (1988) 3 eksemplarer
Più oro dell'oro (2006) 3 eksemplarer
Frammenti (1986) 2 eksemplarer
Supplement Edition: Sappho, The Poems (2011) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Poesie (Italian Edition) (2017) 2 eksemplarer
Tramontata è la luna (2019) 2 eksemplarer
Poesia lesbia y otros poemas (1996) 2 eksemplarer
Poèmes_1_ere_ed (2020) 2 eksemplarer
POESIAS (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Cants de safo (2006) 2 eksemplarer
Sapfos Digte (1995) 2 eksemplarer
Gedichten / druk 3 2 eksemplarer
Σαπφώ (1997) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Sappho Griechisch und deutsch (2014) 2 eksemplarer
Gedichte : Griechisch-deutsch (2011) 2 eksemplarer
Şiirler 2 eksemplarer
The Poems of Sappho and Others (2018) 2 eksemplarer
The Poems of Sappho (2014) 2 eksemplarer
Sappho of Lesbos - Poems (2016) 2 eksemplarer
El canto lesbio (0590) 1 eksemplar
Selected poems 1 eksemplar
Sappho (2002) 1 eksemplar
Gedichte (2009) 1 eksemplar
Fragmentos Poéticos (2002) 1 eksemplar
POEMAS. 4. (1986) 1 eksemplar
Lirika (1981) 1 eksemplar
Safo Poemas 1 eksemplar
Douce violence (1982) 1 eksemplar
Lyra Graeca 1 eksemplar
Poems of Sappho (2008) 1 eksemplar
Pieśni miłosne 1 eksemplar
Básně 1 eksemplar
Písně z Lesbu 1 eksemplar
Ils préféraient la lune (1987) 1 eksemplar
Poemas (1974) 1 eksemplar
iirler 1 eksemplar
Lieder der Sappho 1 eksemplar
You Burn Me: Poems (2008) 1 eksemplar
Sappho Archive 1 eksemplar
Long ago 1 eksemplar
Safo de Lesbos 1 eksemplar
POESIE 1 eksemplar
Saphous melē 1 eksemplar
Sappho Fragments (1990) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Greek Lyrics (1955) — Bidragyder — 484 eksemplarer
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Bidragyder — 448 eksemplarer
The Portable Greek Reader (1948) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver396 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Bidragyder — 298 eksemplarer
Greek Lyric Poetry (1994) — Forfatter — 282 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Bidragyder — 236 eksemplarer
7 Greeks (1995) — Bidragyder — 184 eksemplarer
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Bidragyder — 168 eksemplarer
The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) — Bidragyder — 95 eksemplarer
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (1992) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Grieksche lyriek in Nederlandsche verzen — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
American Aphrodite (Volume Two, Number Eight) (1952) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root #4 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Månen : fra den indre verden til det ydre rum (2018) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver1 eksemplar

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Sappho - If Not, Winter i Folio Society Devotees (januar 1)
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A bilingual edition (Greek on the left-hand page, English on the right) of the complete surviving poetry of Sappho, some from papyri and some from quotations by other authors of a line or even just a word. TBH, I didn't find any of it particularly memorable but it was interesting to see just how fragmentary fragments are.
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Robertgreaves | 27 andre anmeldelser | Feb 6, 2024 |
In Cytherea, amateurish apparatus for translations not hinting about methods, precision in sources and their structures but then again it's not a Loeb edition. A poetess should translate poetry and for all that I know of style the interpretation is at best dull. Reconstruction of her life is interesting, but scholarship of mid-XX century done a better job on reconstruction of Sosipatra's life with less sources available. I know, Sappho lived several centuries earlier, but was much better known than Sosipatra the Theurgist throughout the classical setting. An average compilation done half-heartedly.… (mere)
 
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Saturnin.Ksawery | 2 andre anmeldelser | Jan 12, 2024 |
“and on a soft bed, delicate, you would let loose your longing”.
 
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