{"product_id":"stung-with-love-poems-and-fragments-of-sappho-by-sappho-9780140455571","title":"Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in Penguin Classics, a new translation of Sappho's complete poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore or less 150 years after \u003cem\u003eHomer's Iliad\u003c\/em\u003e, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present-day Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry—among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance—that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46503240663276,"sku":"9780140455571","price":19.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27443483482237.jpg?v=1748628201","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/stung-with-love-poems-and-fragments-of-sappho-by-sappho-9780140455571","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}