Sappho: A New Rendering: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sappho: A New Rendering, credited to Sappho, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Sappho: A New Rendering, by Sappho and Ovid. Translated by H. De Vere Stacpoole. Read by Libby Gohn. Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments survive today. This book includes translations of these fragments, as well as a poem from Ovid's Heroides, "Sappho to Phaon," a fictional letter from Sappho to her assumed lover. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sappho: A New Rendering
• Author credits: Sappho
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 35:35

Catalogue topics

• ibrivox
• lyric poetry
• Ancient Greece
• Heroides
• Sappho
• Ovid

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction and Foreward — 6:26
2. 02 - Fragments 1-10 — 4:32
3. 03 - Fragments 11-20 — 3:13
4. 04 - Fragments 21-30 — 3:21
5. 05 - Fragments 31-40 — 2:36
6. 06 - Fragment 41-53 — 3:51
7. 07 - Sappho to Phaon — 11:39

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