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This is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of a newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. The contributions demonstrate how the “New Sappho” can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.

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    A Paperback by Ellen Greene, Dirk Obbink, Jurgen Hammerstaedt

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 2/16/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780674032958, 978-0674032958
      ISBN10: 0674032950

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      Book Synopsis
      This is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of a newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. The contributions demonstrate how the “New Sappho” can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.

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