{"product_id":"9780942208405","title":"Supplement Edition: Sappho: The Poems","description":"Sappho was universally recognized by the ancients as the greatest lyric poet. Her lines are spare, bare, and subtle, or as Mosas Hadas put it, \"it is ordinary language raised to its highest potential.\" Alongside the odes to Olympic athletes of Pindar, the wisdom verse of Hesiod, or the epic lays of Homer, Sappho's highly personal poems sound quite modern to our ears.\u003cbr\u003eOnly a few fragments of her work has survived the centuries, most of them more than one line in length are in this book.\u003cbr\u003eThe Supplement Edition coordinates with the student text edition, and includes the same poems (www.createspace.com\/4185675).\u003cbr\u003eThis dialogue-style teaching supplement, the Supplement Edition: Sappho: The Poems is arranged by question and answers. \u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003ePreface for teachers\u003cbr\u003eWho was Sappho?\u003cbr\u003eWhere did Sappho live?\u003cbr\u003eWho was in Sappho's family?\u003cbr\u003eMap of Aeolian Greek territory\u003cbr\u003eWhat do we know of Sappho's poetry?\u003cbr\u003eWhat was Sappho's school like?\u003cbr\u003eWhat was Sappho's sexual orientation?\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes Sappho's poetry special?\u003cbr\u003eWhat did the ancients think of Sappho?\u003cbr\u003eWhat was the poetry tradition in Lesbos?\u003cbr\u003eWhat was Greek poetry like?\u003cbr\u003eWhat was unique about the Aeolian dialect?\u003cbr\u003eWhat techniques does Sappho use?\u003cbr\u003eWhat was Lesbos culture like\u003cbr\u003eWhat role did Greek women play socially?\u003cbr\u003eWhat about particular poems?\u003cbr\u003eBB11. Alkaios: Violet-haired, pure\u003cbr\u003eBB12. Ah, the sweet apple that reddens at the tip\u003cbr\u003eBB13. Dika, braid your lovely hair\u003cbr\u003eBB14. Aphrodite on your shining throne\u003cbr\u003eBB21. Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters\u003cbr\u003eBB22. The full wine bowl already had\u003cbr\u003eBB23. Lucky bridegroom, your wedding day has come\u003cbr\u003eBB23. The doorkeeper to the bridal chamber has feet\u003cbr\u003eBB24. A messenger came running on powerful legs\u003cbr\u003eBB25. Give up groom, we'll camp outside your door\u003cbr\u003eBB26. Indeed the stars anywhere near her undisguised brilliance;\u003cbr\u003eBB27. You cam. And you did well to come\u003cbr\u003eBB28. To me he looks godlike\u003cbr\u003eBB30. Anaktoria: Some prize the cavalry, while others favor\u003cbr\u003eBB31. Love now shakes my limbs and\u003cbr\u003eBB32. Atthis: Even in distant Sardis\u003cbr\u003eBB34. So, I'll never see Atthis again\u003cbr\u003eBB35. Leave Crete, and come to me here\u003cbr\u003eBB36. Mermaids and brine-born Aphrodite, please\u003cbr\u003eBB38. Hera, I pray you, may you\u003cbr\u003eBB40. I have a little daughter who is like\u003cbr\u003eBB41. When our girls were young\u003cbr\u003eBB42. Girlhood, girlhood, when you left me\u003cbr\u003eBB46. Gongyla, this is surely a sign\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the controversy about Sappho?\u003cbr\u003eWho opposed Sappho and why?\u003cbr\u003eDid Sappho leap for love?\u003cbr\u003eWhom did Sappho influence?\u003cbr\u003eWhat have the modern critics said?\u003cbr\u003eWhat problems in translating Sappho?\u003cbr\u003eWhat English translations of Sappho?\u003cbr\u003eWhat is Sappho's publication history?\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eGlossary","brand":"Bandanna Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034482426096,"sku":"9780942208405","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780942208405_p0.jpg?v=1763879098","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780942208405","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}