Sappho

Sappho

Sappho's most popular book is If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho with 296 saves and an average rating of 4.41.

Author Bio

Work of Greek lyric poet Sappho, noted for its passionate and erotic celebration of the beauty of young women and men, after flourit circa 600 BC and survives only in fragments.

Ancient history poetry texts associate Sappho (Σαπφώ or Ψάπφω) sometimes with the city of Mytilene or suppose her birth in Eresos, another city, sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC. She died around 570 BC. People throughout antiquity well knew and greatly admired the bulk, now lost, but her immense reputation endured.

Authorship percentage indicates primary author status - excluding introductions, forewards and other contributions.

Series

80 primary books21 released books

Authored 4% of series

Penguin Little Black Classics

Penguin Little Black Classics is a 21-book series with 80 released primary works first released in -441 with contributions by Giovanni Boccaccio, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and David Morrell.

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