Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation [Fine Binding]

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Small Octavo, Bound by G.P. Putnam's Sons at The Knickerbocker Press Bindery. Original wrappers bound in. Bound in dark blue-green crushed levant morocco, with gilt tooling and pointille to all corners and four of six spine compartments. Wide turn-ins with gilt ruling and decoration to each corner. Original cloth bound in. Top edge gilt. Some very light wear to outer hinges, and covers slightly bowed. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. She was known in antiquity as a great poet. Plato called her "the tenth Muse" and her likeness appeared on coins. It is unclear whether she invented or simply refined the meter of her day, but today it is known as "Sapphic" meter. Her poems were first collected into nine volumes around the third century B.C., but her work was lost almost entirely for many years. Merely one twenty-eight-line poem of hers has survived intact, and she was known principally through quotations found in the works of other authors until the nineteenth century. In 1898 scholars unearthed papyri that contained fragments of her poems. In 1914 in Egypt, archeologists discovered papier- mâché coffins made from scraps of paper that contained more verse fragments attributed to Sappho. Sappho is not only one of the few women poets we know of from antiquity, but also is one of the greatest lyric poets from any age. N° de ref. del artículo 025575

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