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Livres anciens et modernes

Green, Peter

The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos

University of California Press, 1995

18,00 €

Kalamos Books

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Détails

Année
1995
ISBN
0520203402
Auteur
Green, Peter
Éditeurs
University of California Press
Thème
SAPPHO LESBOS MYTILENE ANCIENT GREEC IN FICTION
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Comme neuf
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

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.