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Green, Peter

The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos

University of California Press, 1995

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Year of publication
1995
ISBN
0520203402
Author
Green, Peter
Publishers
University of California Press
Keyword
SAPPHO LESBOS MYTILENE ANCIENT GREEC IN FICTION
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

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.