Sappho.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - THOMAS McEVILLEY has published many scholarly monographs and articles on both classical and modern philology, philosophy, religion, and art, including The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies (2002) and The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism (2005). -- The current volume on Sappho represents many years of work and includes two major unpublished new studies: �The Garden of the Graces: The Survival of Bronze Age Religious Motifs into the Modern Lyric Poem,� and �The Clear-Voiced Song-Loving Lyre: Recent Explorations in Sapphic Studies.� -- .she shines out among the Lydian wives like the rosy-fingered moon when the sun has set, -- outshining all the stars, and it sheds its light on the salt sea and the flowery fields alike, -- and the fair dew is poured out, and there bloom the roses -- and tender chervils and blossomy honey-lotuses, -- and, wandering far off, she yearns for gentle Atthis and her delicate breast is weighed down with desire, -- her heart with grief. -- (Fragment 96). ISBN 9780882145747