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Sweetbitter love : poems of Sappho / translated by Willis Barnstone ; with epilogue and metrical guide by William E. McCulloh.
Van Pelt Library PA4408.E5 B35 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sappho.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. English & Greek. 2005
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Sappho--Translations into English.
- Sappho.
- Love poetry, Greek--Translations into English.
- Love poetry, Greek.
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 316 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Shambhala ; [New York] : Distributed by Random House, 2006.
- Summary:
- In this translation of the Greek poetess's work, Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious.
- Contents:
- Afroditi of the Flowers at Knossos
- Prayer to Afroditi 3
- Afroditi of the Flowers at Knossos 7
- Moon and Women 9
- Dancers at a Kritan Altar 9
- In Time of Storm 11
- To Lady Hera 13
- Invitation 15
- Sacrifice 15
- Death of Adonis 17
- Adonis Gone 17
- To Afroditi 19
- Afroditi 19
- Afroditi to Psapfo 21
- Days of Harshness 21
- Artemis on Solitary Mountains 23
- Artemis 23
- Nightingale
- Evening Star 27
- Hesperos 27
- Moon 29
- Earth 29
- Nightingale 31
- Cicada 31
- Doves Playing Dead 33
- Of Gello Who Died Young, Whose Ghost Haunts Little Children 33
- World 35
- Eos 35
- Dawn 35
- Walking to a Wedding
- Hair Yellower Than Torch Flame 39
- Time of Youth 41
- Of a Young Lover 43
- My Daughter 43
- Wildflowers 45
- The Virgin 45
- Girl 47
- Remorse 47
- Words with Virginity 47
- The Lyre Speaks 49
- Wedding of Andromache and Hektor 51
- Walking to a Wedding 55
- Song to the Groom 57
- Song for the Bride 57
- Lesbian Bride 57
- Guarding the Bride 59
- Chamber 59
- Hermis at a Wedding 61
- Fragments 63
- To Hymen, Wedding God 65
- Song to Groom and Bride 65
- Night Song 67
- A Guard outside the Bridal Chamber, Who Keeps the Bride's Friends from Rescuing Her 69
- End of a Party 69
- You Burn Us
- Seizure 73
- Alone 75
- Emptiness 75
- Eros 77
- Love 77
- Supreme Sight on the Black Earth 79
- To Eros 81
- Absence 81
- Goatherd 83
- Shall I? 83
- Pleasure 83
- Encounter 85
- Homecoming 85
- Desire 87
- A God 87
- Absent 89
- Of Those Unwilling to Take the Bitter with the Sweet 91
- Endure 91
- I Shall 91
- Return, Gongyla
- To a Friend Gone, Remember 95
- Beauty in a Man 99
- Atthis 99
- Her Friends 101
- Sweetbitter 101
- Return, Gongyla 103
- You Can Free Me 105
- Kydro 107
- You in Sardis 109
- Afroditi and Desire 111
- A Handsome Man 113
- Myths 113
- Paralysis 113
- Behind a Laurel Tree 115
- Companions 117
- Lito and Niobi 117
- As Long As There Is Breath 119
- Return 121
- Weathercocks and Exile
- Fury 125
- Abuse 125
- Gorgo 127
- Andromeda 127
- Atthis Disappearing 129
- Where Am I? 129
- A Ring 131
- Madden 131
- Delicate Girl 131
- Andromeda, What Now? 133
- Hello and Goodbye 133
- Mika 135
- Alkaios Speaks and Psapfo Responds 137
- In My Pain 137
- From Her Exile 139
- Protect My Brother Haraxos 141
- To My Brother Haraxos 143
- To Afroditi About Her Brother's Lover 145
- Doriha 145
- Secret of My Craft
- Holy Tortoise Shell 149
- Some Honored Me 149
- Graces 151
- Singer 151
- Graces and Muses 153
- The Muses 153
- Happiness 155
- Light 155
- Sandal
- A Swan's Egg Containing Kastor and Polydeukis 159
- Comparisons 159
- A Swallow 161
- Jason's Cloak 161
- Robe 163
- Chickpeas 165
- Purple Handcloth 165
- Beauty of Her Friends 165
- On Going Bareheaded 167
- Sandal 169
- Garment 169
- Dream and Sleep
- Dawn with Gold Arms 173
- Sleep 173
- Black Sleep 175
- In a Dream 175
- Dream 177
- Innocence 179
- Clear Voiced 179
- Dew 181
- Face 181
- Age and Light
- Old Man 185
- Gods 185
- Angry with Her Daughter When She Psapfo Was Dying 185
- Old Age 187
- No Oblivion 189
- To Hermis Who Guides the Dead 189
- To a Woman of No Education 191
- Menelaos 191
- Wish 193
- Age and the Bed 193
- Afroditi to Psapfo 195
- Growing Old 197
- Desire and Sun 199
- Indirect Poems
- Death Is Evil 203
- Gold 203
- Elegiac Poems from the Greek Anthology Wrongly Attributed to Sappho
- On Pelagon 207
- On Timas 207
- Testimonia and Encomia 209
- Metrical Guide / William E. McCulloh 283.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-314) and index.
- Translated from the Ancient Greek.
- ISBN:
- 1590301757
- OCLC:
- 58648185
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