Buy this book on-line Green, Peter : The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of LesbosUniversity of California Press, 1995 ISBN 0520203402
Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. 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 shards of which more than half are missing. " 273p. maps, chronology.. Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Green, Peter : The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, out-of-print books, out of print books, first editions and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |