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This selection published in Penguin Classics 2015

Translation copyright © Aaron Poochigian, 2009

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ISBN: 978-0-141-39870-9

Contents

Goddesses

Desire and Death-Longing

Her Girls and Family

Troy

Maidens and Marriages

The Wisdom of Sappho

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SAPPHO

Born c. 630 BCE, Mytilene, Lesbos

Died c. 570 BCE, Mytilene, Lesbos

Taken from Aaron Poochigian’s translation of Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments, first published in 2009.

SAPPHO IN PENGUIN CLASSICS

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments