Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

By Carol Ann Duffy I Sappho I Aaron Poochigian

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ISBN: 9780140455571

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited

Binding: paperback

Number of Pages: 160

Publication Date: 08-Jun-09

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150 years after Homer’s Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This tit

Sappho was born sometime between 630 and 617 BCE and died around 570. Little of certainty is known about her life. A native of the island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. She composed songs for choral and solo performance on a wide ra

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150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This tit