Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a…

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…

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This volume combines the author’s various scholarly writings on the Greek poet Sappho, including two major unpublished studies, The Rosy-Fingered Moon: Imagination and Reality in the Poems of Sappho and…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

The nine lyric poets were a canon of ancient Greek composers esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study. The most famous of which is probably…

Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features…

What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original…