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A review by prodoehl
The Complete Poems of Sappho by Sappho
5.0
Even the fragments we have of Sappho's poetry are incredibly beautiful. She was considered the 10th Muse in the ancient world, and even studied and learned for hundreds of years after her death.
This book offers the "complete poems" as far as evidence at the time is available. Hopefully someday this book with be outdated with more discoveries being made at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
Still, if you enjoy poetry, classical studies, or ancient Greece, this volume will delight you. I found it useful to divide the book into three parts. The poetry, the sources/notes/commentary; and the Glossary. I book marked those three sections, so I could look up the sources and glossary for each entry I was reading.
One other part of this book that was interesting to read: there was a section of references of Sappho in Greek and Latin antiquity. Writers who wrote about Sappho. All in all, I enjoyed this volume, and hope to read it again.
This book offers the "complete poems" as far as evidence at the time is available. Hopefully someday this book with be outdated with more discoveries being made at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
Still, if you enjoy poetry, classical studies, or ancient Greece, this volume will delight you. I found it useful to divide the book into three parts. The poetry, the sources/notes/commentary; and the Glossary. I book marked those three sections, so I could look up the sources and glossary for each entry I was reading.
One other part of this book that was interesting to read: there was a section of references of Sappho in Greek and Latin antiquity. Writers who wrote about Sappho. All in all, I enjoyed this volume, and hope to read it again.