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Author : Sappho [Ψάπφω/Σαπφώ] (630 - 570 BC)
Written : 610 - 570 BC
Place of Origin : Ancient Greece
Original Media type : Potsherd, Papyrus Fragments, Manuscripts
Original Language : Ancient Greek
Genre(s) : Ancient Greece, Lyric Poetry
Translator : Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929)
Reader : Peter Yearsley
Audio & Video Editor : AudioBooks Dimension
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Sappho One Hundred Lyrics Audiobook Video Chapters;

00:00:00 - I
00:07:46 - XI
00:11:56 - XXI
00:17:40 - XXXI
00:25:12 - XLI
00:30:25 - LI
00:38:07 - LXI
00:43:44 - LXXI
00:48:34 - LXXXI
00:57:16 - XCI

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For about two thousand five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists. Every one who reads acknowledges her fame, concedes her supremacy ; but to all except poets and Hellenists her name is a vague and uncomprehended splendour, rising secure above a persistent mist of misconception. In spite of all that is in these days being written about Sappho, it is perhaps not out of place now to inquire, in a few words, into the substance of this supremacy which towers so unassailably secure from what appear to be such shadowy foundations.

Sappho was at the height of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. Among the AEolic peoples of the Isles, in particular, it had been carried to a high pitch of perfection, and its forms had become the subject of assiduous study. Its technique was exact, complex, extremely elaborate, minutely regulated ; yet the essential fires of sincerity, spontaneity, imagination, and passion were flaming with undiminished heat behind the fixed forms and restricted measures. The very metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples, the sunlit silver of the fountains, the hyacinth gardens by a soft blue sea, beauty and Love in their young warmth could fuse the most rigid forms to fluency. Here Sappho was the acknowledged queen of song—revered, studied, imitated, served, adored by a little court of attendants and disciples, loved and hymned by Alcaeus and acclaimed by her fellowcraftsmen throughout Greece as the wonder of her age.

"The Lost 'Poems of Sappho" have been jewels of a radiance so imperishable that the broken gleams of them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to witness their full glory.

This audiobook present most of Sappho (Ψάπφω/Σαπφώ) One Hundred Lyrics (Poetry) book translated by Bliss Carman.
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