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516 Sappho (with Diane Rayor)

The History of Literature

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Sappho and Alceus: A Male Contemporary

In the first edition of this Sapho book in 2014, there was a new Sapho poem discovered in 2004. And so yeah, talk about puzzle pieces and it's just beautiful. There's also 11 poems that I added in this edition that are considered either Sappho or Alceus. That's her male contemporary because they show the same time period.

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