Sappho's Immortal Daughters

by Margaret Williamson

Book Overview

She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 B.C.E. She composed lyric poetry, only fragments of which survive. And she was--and is--the most highly regarded woman poet of Greek and Roman antiquity.

Little more than this can be said with certainty about Sappho, and yet a great deal more is said. Her life, so little known, is the stuff of legends; her poetry, the source of endless speculation. This book is a search for Sappho through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067478913X
• ISBN13: 9780674789135
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Most Comprehensive I've Read

Just fininshing up a history term paper here for my major, and I thought I'd drop off a good word for the best secondary source on Sappho's life and work that I've ever seen. Ms. Williamson leaves no rock unturned, no aspect of Sappho's work or life unaddressed, and manages to do it in an entertaining and comprehensive way without running into 500 pages! If you are interested in Sappho at all beyond the text of her extant poetry, this is the book to buy!