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213 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226167565
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 April 1997
Description
To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is...
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213 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226167565
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 April 1997
Description
To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is...