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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.

The New Sappho on Old Age Textual and Philosophical Issues

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

    Number of Pages: 250

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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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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