The Laughter of Aphrodite purports to have been written by Sappho at the end of her life. This is a common device, but not one that is easy to pull off convincingly, since it requires taking a "native" perspective. Green's novel is, however, a success. · Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make Pages: Buy a cheap copy of The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about book by Peter Green. Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical /5(4).
The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics), Sappho, et al. Sappho: A New Translation, Mary Barnard (Translator), Dudley Fitts. Reissue The Sappho Companion, Margaret Reynolds (Editor). The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos, Peter Green. The Laughter Of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho Of Lesbos|Peter Green, The Twenty-Two Gates to the Garden|Steven M. Rosman, Radiation Biology of Medical Imaging|Kimberly S. Paffett, Woody Guthrie: America's Folksinger (Trailblazer Biographies)|Karen Mueller Coombs. Peter Green is a Classical History professor, but the best kind, for this book was written by flesh and blood, by someone who understands desire and disappointment, idealism and urgency; that is, "The Laughter of Aphrodite" was written by a person who could combine with consummate art knowledge of the past with awareness of the eternal in humanity.
Green wrote the novel while living on Lesbos, and his graceful rendering of the landscape, the rhythms of the seasons, and the varied flora of Sappho's island pervades the narrative. Sappho's poetry reveals a direct, spontaneous woman who eschewed artifice and embellishment. Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. www.doorway.ru: The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos (): Green, Peter: Books. Included with a Kindle Unlimited membership.
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