If Not, Winter: The Complete Fragments Of Sappho

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If Not, Winter: The Complete Fragments Of SapphoNot much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships, her queerness, her family, her death all these details are hazy, lost to time. Likewise, of the nine scrolls of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed during her life on the island of Lesbos, only one poem has survived complete the rest are fragments. In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson has collected and translated all the surviving fragments of Sappho's verse. With the

this is the only book to guide students through the skills needed to read original Latin works

tormented by his murderous past and a prophecy of the man who will one day destroy him

και ξανά

And justice is a useful word

and the 'Menippean' texture of part prose

perhaps the earliest surviving tragedy of Sophocles

Child-Friendly Approach: Designed with younger learners in mind

approaching it not merely as a part of the tradition of didactic poetry

and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama

This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox

Virgil depicts war in all its ugly complexity

Plato attempts to establish that only morality can bring a person true happiness