Guide to the classics: Sappho, a poet in fragments
- Written by Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle
Fresco showing a woman called Sappho holding writing implements from Pompeii Naples National Archaeological MuseumWikimedia CommonsFor those who have read the fragmented remains of the Greek poet, Sappho the loss of most of her poetic corpus is something to regret. With a mere two complete poems extant from nine books of verse, much is left to the...