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Sappho: Poets
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Sappho's place setting incorporates motifs from Greek art and architecture, which reflect her important cultural influence. There are ... references to her as the "flower of the graces," a name which contemporary writers ascribed to the poet.
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This is the first book to examine Sappho's poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. Snyder provides close readings of the surviving examples of Sappho's poetry, occasionally presenting comparative material from other ancient Greek poets. The original Greek text is included in an appendix.
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As Denys Page states in Sappho and Alcaeus, the poets of Lesbos created "the most exquisite lyrical poetry the world has known." It is perhaps due to this exquisiteness and sensuality that Lesbos was to become "a byword for corruption" and "decadent sensuality" comparable to the reputation of the Provencal troubadours and their erotic literature in later times.
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No contemporary historical sources exist for Sappho's life — only her poetry. Scholars have rejected a biographical reading of her poetry and have cast doubt on the reliability of the later biographical traditions from which all more detailed accounts derive.[1]
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No contemporary historical sources exist for Sappho's life—only her poetry. While it is natural to suppose some commonality of experience between Sappho's poetic persona and the historical Sappho, scholars have rejected a biographical reading of the poetry and have cast grave doubts on the reliability of the later biographical traditions of from which all more detailed accounts derive.
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