The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 7 original MP3 tracks, 1:26:18 running time and a link to listen.
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English, 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 The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho. (Translated by John Myers O'Hara.) Read in English by Eva Davis Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries ago? - Maurice Thompson This is a collection of the poetry of Sappho, in a "rather creative translation" by American poet John Myers O'Hara. - Summary by Carolin
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English
- Author credits: Sappho
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 7
- Listed recording duration: 1:26:18
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- poem
- greece
- translation
- Sappho
- lesbia
- 1907
Track guide
- 01 - Sapphics — 23:24
- 02 - Epithalamia - Threnodes — 10:00
- 03 - Partheneia - Didaktika — 9:31
- 04 - Erotika - Dithyrambs — 18:45
- 05 - Girl Friends — 13:35
- 06 - Phaon — 8:44
- 07 - Epigrams — 2:19
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