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Green, Peter

THE LAUGHTER OF APHRODITE A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

University of California Press, 1993

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Année
1993
Auteur
Green, Peter
Éditeurs
University of California Press
Thème
Novel Sappho Poetry & Poets Lesbos
Description
Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Description
Hardcover ISBN 0520079663

Description

Creasing to rear DJ flap ; Best-selling classicist 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." Yet, in his synthesis of historical evidence and ebullient invention, Green produces a seamless, moving, and persuasive portrait. He recreates Sappho's life by interweaving her surviving poetry into the narrative, not as quotations, but as her own imagined speeches and thoughts. ; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches; 274 pages