Z písní lásky

by Sappho

Genres: Poetry

174 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1968

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

[Jan Kittler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Felt compelled to explore more of some antic poetry and the name of Sappho has remained as a distant poetic deity in the back of my head for what now feels like ages. Reading her is like discovering something long lost, speaking of something you didn't know was that old. Because very little of her work was preserved in full, it felt even more like putting back together an old civilization of love. There are passages in this collection that are literally just slightly altered copies across multiple different "poems" — as if you were reading her notes or scribbles that would only later take the form of a poem. But they're still beautiful and delicately gentle.

The preserved works from the antic world are so mythical. And probably the reason they're immortal is because they're each sung from the inspiration of a Muse.