![]() ![]() Texts from antiquity - and even late antiquity - are incredibly rare. Over the centuries, Sappho became known as the great Poetess, one of the best (if not the best) to exist (Plato even called her the tenth muse). All that one needs to know for now is that she wrote poems to her friends, family, and acquaintances throughout her life she utilized a type of verse that is now referred to as Sapphic meter her poems were most likely compiled during her life or shortly after her death, and published in collections of lyric poetry or critical editions of her work throughout late antiquity and the early medieval period. Little is known about her life, and information is constantly speculated and contested - and little of it needs to be recounted at the moment. Sappho lived from approximately 630-570 BC on the island of Lesbos. ![]() I would be surprised if someone in the class did not also write about Sappho’s poems as texts that have been transmuted by translators, authors, politicians, and clergy over millennia and across cultures her work epitomizes the “long chain of human activity” that affects media over time, as described in the prompt. ![]() Listen while you read: “Sappho” by Frankie Cosmos “someone will remember us / I say /even in another time” – Sappho, fragment 147, translated by Anne Carson ![]()
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