When you type Mary Barnard’s name into Google, the auto-fill function tantalizes before you even get to the last syllable: Mary Barnard Sappho. Sappho, of course, is the ancient Greek lyric poet whose ...
When he published Oxyrhinchus Papyrus #2289 in 1951, Edgar Lobel remarked that “It cannot be said to add much to our knowledge and in two places it brings new darkness.” Yet now a new papyrus roll has ...
A classicist at McGill University, Carson has mined Greek literature, and Sappho in particular, to tremendous effect and acclaim in her poetry and essays. Her prose Eros the Bittersweet (1986) ...
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