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Green, Peter

The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos

University of California Press, 1995

18,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1995
ISBN
0520203402
Autore
Green, Peter
Editori
University of California Press
Soggetto
SAPPHO LESBOS MYTILENE ANCIENT GREEC IN FICTION
Descrizione
S
Sovracoperta
No
Stato di conservazione
Come nuovo
Legatura
Brossura
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task " rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amphora from hundreds of shards of which more than half are missing. " 273p. maps, chronology.