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    The Poems of Sappho and Others
    The Poems of Sappho and Others
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    The nine lyric poets were a canon of ancient Greek composers esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study. The most famous of which is probably Sappho, who was born sometime between 630 and 612 BC on the Greek island of Lesbos. The famous Library of Alexandria collected Sappho’s poems into nine books, unfortunately these editions have been lost. Today only fragments of the poetess’ work remains. These fragments are collected together here in this volume of “The Poems of Sappho and Others” along with fragments of the other Greek monodist lyric poets contemporary to Sappho. Altogether we find the poetry of Alcaeus, Pythermus, Anacreon, Anacreontea, Corrina, Telesilla, Praxilla, Erinna as well as Sappho in this volume of poetry translated by Walter Petersen.
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    PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
    Release dateJun 1, 2018
    ISBN9781420958348
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    The Greek poet Sappho is one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greatest women poets, but often as the greatest woman poet in world literature. She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 BC and even in her lifetime, her work was widely known and admired in the Greek world. Plato called her 'the tenth muse', and she was a major influence on other poets, from Horace and Catullus to more recent lyric poets. Yet in later centuries, speculation about her sexuality has tended to diminish her poetic reputation. One medieval pope considered her so subversive that her poems were burnt. Some of her poems were written for the women she loved, but her circle of women friends and admirers was not unlike Socrates' circle of followers. She may have been a lesbian in the modern sense, or she may not, but to call her a lesbian poet is an over-simplification. What remains is her poetry, or the fragments which have survived of it, and her intense, sensuous, highly acoomplished love poems are among the finest in any language. Bloodaxe published Josephine Balmer's translation of her surviving poetry, Poems & Fragments, in 1992, followed in 2018 by a second, expanded edition including fragments discovered in recent years.

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      The Poems of Sappho and Others - Sappho

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      THE POEMS OF SAPPHO

      AND OTHERS

      Translated by

      WALTER PETERSEN

      The Poems of Sappho and Others

      Translated by Walter Petersen

      Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5833-1

      eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5834-8

      This edition copyright © 2018. Digireads.com Publishing.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Cover Image: a detail of In the Days of Sappho by John William Godward, c. 1904, Getty Center, Los Angeles.

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      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Sappho

      TO APHRODITE (1)

      TO A BELOVED MAIDEN (2)

      A VISION OF HERA (3)

      DEATH IS ALL I WISH FOR ME (4)

      WELCOME (5)

      A REBUKE (6)

      CHARAXUS AND DORICHA (7)

      PRAYER FOR THE RETURN OF CHARAXUS (8)

      SAPPHO’S DAUGHTER CLEIS (9)

      THE FAIREST THING IN ALL CREATION (10)

      PARTING FROM A GIRL FRIEND (11)

      THE BRIDE OF SARDIS (12)

      TO GONGYLE (13)

      ATTHIS (14)

      (15)

      (16)

      HERO (17)

      ERANNA (18)

      A COMPARISON (19)

      TO DICE (MNESIDICE) (20)

      TO AN UNKNOWN FRIEND (21)

      IN THE BLOOM OF HER YOUTH (22)

      A GIFTED PUPIL (23)

      A LOST PUPIL (24)

      (25)

      THE BRIDEGROOM (26)

      (27)

      (28)

      THE BRIDE (29)

      (30)

      (31)

      (32)

      MAIDENHOOD (33)

      THE BRIDAL DAY (34)

      FELICITATIONS (35)

      THE FATHER (36)

      THE PORTER (37)

      THE UNWOOED MAIDEN (38)

      VESPER (39)

      ANDROMACHE’S WEDDING (40-41)

      A DIVINE WEDDING FESTIVAL (42)

      LOVE’S TEMPEST (43)

      LOVE’S ATTACK (44)

      RESTLESS THROUGH LOVE (45)

      MIDNIGHT SOLITUDE (46)

      TO A FRIEND (47)

      TO ALCAEUS (48)

      A REFUSAL (49)

      ANOTHER (50)

      SAPPHO’S FALSE FRIENDS (51)

      A CURSE (52)

      ANDROMEDA (53)

      (54)

      GORGO (55)

      THE CHILD OF POLYANAX (56)

      TO A RICH BUT UNEDUCATED WOMAN (57)

      SAPPHO TO HER LYRE (58)

      SPURIOUS FRAGMENT TO THE MUSE (59)

      SAPPHO THE PUPIL OF THE MUSES (60)

      SAPPHO ON HER GENIUS (61)

      HER HOPE OF IMMORTALITY (62)

      SAPPHO’S SONG FOR HER GIRL FRIENDS (63)

      HER LOYALTY TO HER GIRL FRIENDS (64)

      SAPPHO’S TEMPERAMENT (65)

      (66)

      SAPPHO’S TASTES (67)

      SAPPHO ON HER DEATH-BED TO HER DAUGHTER (68)

      KEEP GUARD ON THY TONGUE (69)

      BEAUTY (70)

      WEALTH (71)

      EMPTY PRIDE (72)

      THE RUBBLE-STONE (73)

      NO HONEY FOR ME (74)

      OVERFOND MOTHERS (75)

      DEATH AN EVIL (76)

      THE MOON AND THE STARS (77)

      THE EVENING-STAR (78)

      A DELIGHTFUL SPOT (79)

      CHICKPEAS (80)

      DOVES (81)

      THE NIGHTINGALE (82)

      THE SWALLOW (83)

      INVOCATION (84)

      COME TO THY WORSHIPPERS (85)

      A SACRIFICE (86)

      A PRAYER (87)

      LISTEN TO MY DREAM (88)

      APHRODITE TO SAPPHO (89)

      (90)

      TO APHRODITE’S STATUE (91)

      APHRODITE’S MAID (92)

      ADONIS IS DEAD (93)

      TO THE MUSES (94)

      TO THE MUSES AND THE GRACES (95)

      TO THE GRACES (96)

      (97)

      DAWN (98)

      LEDA’S FIND (99)

      ARES AND HEPHAESTUS (100)

      HERMES (?) (101)

      NIGHTLY WORSHIPPERS (102)

      CRETAN DANCES (103)

      A DANCE ON THE LAWN (104)

      A FAIR LITTLE MAID (105)

      A COMPARISON (106)

      LYDIAN DYES (107)

      A SOFT CUSHION (108)

      FINE COVERS (109)

      THE GLOOM OF NIGHT (110)

      DOUBT (111)

      I FLUTTER LIKE A CHILD (112)

      I NEED NO ADVICE (113)

      AETHOPIA (114)

      TIMAS (115)

      PELAGON (116)

      Alcaeus

      IN WINTER (1)

      IN SUMMER (2)

      IN SPRING (3)

      IN THE AFTERNOON (4)

      AT NIGHT (5)

      ON THE STORMY SEA (6)

      IN GRIEF (7)

      CHEER UP (8)

      REJOICE! THE TYRANT IS DEAD (9)

      THE VINE FIRST OF ALL (10)

      NOT FASTIDIOUS (11)

      WINE A MIRROR (12)

      WINE AND TRUTH (13)

      WINE’S STING (14)

      CEASE DRINKING! SEIZE THE RUDDER! (15)

      WREATHS AND MYRRH (16)

      MYRRH FOR OLD AGE (17)

      IN LOVE (18)

      A SERENADE (19)

      TO SAPPHO (20)

      TO CRINO (21)

      THE VIOLET-GIRDLED MAID (22)

      MENON (23)

      IN THE BLOOM OF HIS YOUTH (24)

      THE SHIP OF STATE UNDER MYRSILUS (25)

      (26)

      A LATER TYRANT COMPARED WITH MELANCHRUS (27)

      PITTACUS IN POVERTY (28)

      A WARNING AGAINST PITTACUS (29)

      PITTACUS’ LAST MOVE (30)

      PITTACUS IN POWER (31)

      PITTACUS THE UPSTART (32)

      PITTACUS’ ANCESTRY (33)

      PITTACUS AND DINOMENES (34)

      PITTACUS’ ARSENAL (35)

      AN ATTEMPTED BARGAIN (36)

      INSOLENCE OF THE OPPONENTS (37)

      RESIGN THYSELF TO PEACE, MELANIPPUS (38)

      TO ANTIMENIDES (39)

      ALCAEUS’ ARMORY (40)

      THE STATE’S TOWER OF STRENGTH (41)

      DEATH IN BATTLE (42)

      THE TERROR OF THE ENEMY (43)

      A PRAYER FOR VICTORY (44)

      THE GOD OF WAR (45)

      ACHILLES (46)

      AJAX (47)

      HELEN AND THETIS (48)

      TO CASTOR AND POLLUX (49)

      TO APOLLO (50)

      TO HERMES (51)

      TO ATHENA (52)

      TO ATHENA (53)

      ATHENA (54)

      EROS (55)

      POSIDON (56)

      THE NYMPHS (57)

      HEPHAESTUS (?) (58)

      BEWARE OF THE RUBBLE-STONE (59)

      MONEY MAKES THE MAN (60)

      POVERTY (61)

      NOTHING FROM NOTHING (62)

      GUARD THY TONGUE (63)

      LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (64)

      WOE TO THE MAIMED (65)

      COWARDICE (66)

      THE SWINE BRISTLES (67)

      THE ROCK OF TANTALUS (68)

      A FRIEND WORTHY OF HOSPITALITY (69)

      AN ANCIENT STORY (70)

      TO THE LIMPET (71)

      NO NEED OF WITNESSES (72)

      OBSTINACY (73)

      DAZED (74)

      FORLORN (75)

      A WOMAN’S MISERY (76)

      RELIEF (77)

      A DISGRACE TO THE FAMILY (78)

      IN THE NICK OF TIME (79)

      BLESSED WHO WIN YOU (80)

      ONLY THE NOBLE (81)

      MIGRATING DUCKS (82)

      AUTUMN’S BLOOM (83)

      GENTLE WINDS (84)

      BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SKY (85)

      THE COTTABUS GAME (86)

      Pythermus

      Anacreon

      TO ARTEMIS (1)

      WINE, WOMAN, AND SONG (2)

      EROS KING OVER ALL (3)

      EROS THE BRONZE-SMITH (4)

      EROS’ DICE (5)

      A BOUT WITH EROS (6)

      RADIANT LOVE (7)

      THE ROCK OF LEUCAS (8)

      LOVE UNREQUITED (9)

      TOO OLD (10)

      PRAYER TO DIONYSUS FOR CLEOBULUS (11)

      CLEOBULUS (12)

      CLEOBULUS (?) (13)

      TO SMERDIES (14)

      LEUCASPIS (15)

      SIMALUS (16)

      MEGISTES (17)

      MEGISTES (18)

      PYTHOMANDRUS (19)

      ERXION (20)

      UNNAMED BOY FAVORITES (21)

      (22)

      (23)

      A LESBIAN MAIDEN (24)

      A COY THRACIAN MAIDEN (25)

      SPURN NOT OLD AGE, MAIDEN (26)

      PAST THE PRIME OF LIFE (27)

      UNLOVED ASTERIS (28)

      I HAVE HAD ENOUGH (29)

      THE CUP-BEARER (30)

      THE RIGHT MIXTURE (31)

      LET ME DRINK (32)

      MODERATION IN DRINK (33)

      INTOXICATED (34)

      THIRSTY (35)

      IN THE HALLS OF ZEUS (36)

      THE DANCE OF THE MUSES (37)

      MUSIC AND DANCE (38)

      CLOVER GARLANDS (39)

      THREE WREATHS FOR EACH (40)

      THE FESTIVAL OF DIONYSUS (41)

      PERFUMED OINTMENT (42)

      ANACREON’S POPULARITY (43)

      ANACREON’S DESIRES (44)

      ANACREON’S MODERATION IN LOVE (45)

      ANACREON AND HIS TOWNSMEN (46)

      ANACREON’S SHIELD (47)

      ANACREON IN OLD AGE (48)

      A SPRINKLING OF GRAY (49)

      TO ARISTOCLIDES (50)

      WAR OF FACTIONS (51)

      RETURN TO THE FATHERLAND (52)

      THE RUINED CITY-WALL (53)

      A WARRIOR (54)

      ARES’ FRIENDS (55)

      ON A CHARIOT (56)

      CARIAN SHIELDS (57)

      THE COURSE OF THE SPEAR (58)

      EURYPYLE AND ARTEMON (59)

      ARTEMON (60)

      STRATTIS (61)

      ALEXIS (62)

      THE HEN-PECKED HUSBAND (63)

      GASTRODORA (64)

      A BARBAROUS VOICE (65)

      THE MILESIANS (66)

      STORMY DECEMBER (67)

      THE FRIGHTENED FAWN (68)

      TO A SWALLOW (69)

      HIDDEN REEFS (70)

      MIDST LAUREL AND OLIVE (71)

      THE COTTABUS GAME (72)

      GOOD AT QUOITS (73)

      AT THE THALYSIA (74)

      PERSUASION (75)

      FEARLESS (76)

      UNRELENTING (77)

      A CHALLENGE (78)

      DECEITFUL (79)

      STUNNED (80)

      DESPONDENCY (81)

      DISHONORABLE (82)

      DEFAMED AMONG NEIGHBORS (83)

      THE MISCHIEVOUS AND THE PORTER (84)

      MODEST STRANGERS (85)

      RETURNING FROM THE WASH (86)

      LIKE A SPARTAN MAID (87)

      MULES (88)

      NOT MINE IS LOVE OF STRIFE OR BATTLE (89)

      IN SPITE

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