The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues

The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues group work Wydawca: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Data wydania: 2009 ISBN: 9780674032958 Liczba stron: 250 Format: 228 x 152 x 14 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: This is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of a newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. The contributions demonstrate how the New Sappho can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.