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The laughter of Aphrodite : a novel about Sappho of Lesbos /
Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination first published in 1965 and now back in print from the University of California Press. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination first published in 1965 and now back in print from the University of California Press. 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 sherds - of which more than half are missing." Yet, in his ingenious synthesis of historical evidence and ebullient invention, Green produces a seamless, moving, and persuasive portrait. He recreates Sappho's life by interweaving her surviving poetry into the narrative, not as quotations, but as her own imagined speeches and thoughts. Sappho's life spanned one of the most exciting periods in Greek history. Green's novel, full of details about daily life on ancient Lesbos, draws the reader into the political and social climate of her world: the civil strife accompanying the transition from aristocracy to mercantilism, the household relations between slave and aristocrat, the details of sea travel in the Aegean. Green wrote The Laughter of Aphrodite while living on Lesbos and his graceful rendering of the landscape, the rhythms of the seasons, and the rich and varied flora of Sappho's island pervades the narrative. Sappho's poetry reveals a direct, spontaneous woman who eschewed artifice and embellishment. Green's extraordinary talent captures those qualities and brings this woman of unflinching honesty indelibly to life. |
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| Notas: | "First published in 1965 by John Murray"--Title page verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (274 pages : illustrations, maps) |
| ISBN: | 9780520917156 0520917154 |