A review by woodlandbooklover
The Complete Poems of Sappho by Sappho

3.0

The book was in 3 sections: the history of scholarship on Sappho and her poetry, her actual writings, and then things written about her in past times. I didn't know much about her except her legendary bisexuality+ (though that is often erased and she's usually thought of as a lesbian), but after looking at the fragments themselves, we don't really know anything. Her fragments are loving and slightly erotic toward men and women...but what is that proof of? It would be frustrating to be a Sappho scholar when there is so little actual information to work with. Her fragments, even taken out of context of their whole poems, were beautiful and would make good epigraphs and writing prompts. Interesting book, definitely.