Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century
by
Jeffrey M. Duban
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know...