Creator
SAPPHO
Title
The Poems of Sappho
Coverage
Venice
Publisher
Aldus Manutius
Date
1510
Subject
Lost in antiquity.
Description
The editio princeps of Sappho. Her songs rank her with Pindar among the Greek lyric poets. Raised in Mytilene on Lesbos, but exiled to Sicily, she is known to have written more than 10,000 lines of poetry (about two-thirds the length of the Iliad), mostly in her Sapphic stanza. Widely used in ancient Greece and by Catullus in Latin, it influenced the moderns as well, being used by Hardy, Houseman, Pound, Kipling, and Ginsberg.
Source
Σαπφοῦς μελων Sapphonis Opera
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