Diane Rayor's graceful translations and André Lardinois's thorough introduction and notes present the best combination of intelligibility, information, and poetry.
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet.
... Hellas. Now both the Homeric epics and the Egyptian monuments show us Egypt and Greece in contact in the Greek prehistoric period. But it does not exactly follow that the prehistoric Greeks would adopt Egyptian gods; or that the ...
... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...
Yale Classics - The Greatest Works of Ancient Greece
... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...
Yale Classics - Ancient Greek Literature: Mythology, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Theater (Including Biographies of Authors and Critical Study of Each Work)
... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...
The Greatest Classics of Ancient Greece: Mythology, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Theater (Including Biographies of Authors and Critical Study of Each Work)
... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...
... XXX. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee! The bee awaked—with anger wild The bee awaked, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick ...
The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, and Musaeus Translated from the Greek by Francis Fawkes
... XXX . CUPID TAKEN PRISONER . LATE the muses Cupid found , And with wreaths of roses bound , Bound him fast , as soon as caught , And to blooming beauty brought . Venus , with large ransom strove To release the god of love . Vain is ...
... XXX. CUPID once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary head; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a slumbering bee! The bee awaked—with anger wild The bee awaked, and stung the child. Loud and piteous are his cries; To Venus quick ...
... quotes άгaгоíнν , may I lead , from Sappho . 160 . Eustathius , commenting on the Iliad , quotes the grammarian Aristophanes [ about 260 B.C. ] as saying that Sappho calls a wind that is as if twisted up and descending , a cyclone ...
Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation
... quotes άгαгоiнν , may I lead , from Sappho . 160 . Eustathius , commenting on the Iliad , quotes the grammarian Aristophanes [ about 260 B.C. ] as saying that Sappho calls a wind that is as if twisted up and descending , a cyclone ...
'In The Garden Of Lesbian Delight' is the story of five wonderfully uninhibited women enjoying an afternoon of unparralled sexual bliss in a sun-kissed glade by a deep blue lake.
... Cuphagoras, while fighting in the close combat and proving himself a good ... not reported, but as soon as day dawned he caused a search to be made of the ... swipe, to which there is fastened half a skin instead of a bucket, and a man ...
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