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The Laughter of Aphrodite. A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos.
Peter Green
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Description for The Laughter of Aphrodite. A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos.
Paperback. Intends to recreate the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho. This novel introduces Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. Including details about daily life on ancient Lesbos, it draws the reader into the political and social climate of Sappho's world. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
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. 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 ... Read more
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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520203402
SKU
V9780520203402
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About Peter Green
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. A novelist and translator as well as a scholar, he is the author of many previous books, including Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1974; California, 1991) and Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (California, 1990).
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