Fragments

by Sappho, Alcaeus, Théodore Reinach (Translator)

Cette édition propose l'intégralité des 247 fragments attribués à Alcée, qu'il s'agisse de ceux provenant d'un livre déterminé ou ceux dont la place dans l'édition alexandrine est incertaine, ainsi que 208 fragments attribués à la poétesse Sapho. Des introductions érudites et détaillées du grand savant Théodore Reinach offrent une synthèse des connaissances actuelles sur ces deux poètes

Genres: Poetry, Classics

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Work of Greek lyric poet Sappho, noted for its passionate and erotic celebration of the beauty of young women and men, after flourit circa 600 BC and survives only in fragments.

Ancient history poetry texts associate Sappho (Σαπφώ or Ψάπφω) sometimes with the city of Mytilene or suppose her birth in Eresos, another city, sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC. She died around 570 BC. People throughout antiquity well knew and greatly admired the bulk, now lost, but her immense reputation endured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Reviews

[Karith Amel]

Partially responsible (along with the poems my students produced the first year I taught this class) for awakening in me a love of lyric poetry.

"Although only breath, words which I command are immortal."

Like a sweet-apple
turning red
high
on the tip
of the topmost branch.
Forgotten by pickers.

Not forgotten—
they couldn’t reach it.