Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho Theatre direction & production *Unique wildlife of Tasmania

*Unique wildlife of Tasmania

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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho Theatre direction & production *Unique wildlife of TasmaniaFor the first time in Penguin Classics, a new translation of Sappho's complete poetry More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry