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  Sappho

  9 Apr 2015· In Our Time: Culture

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  Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Greek poet Sappho. Born in the late seventh century BC, Sappho spent much of her life on the island of Lesbos. In antiquity she was famed as one of the greatest lyric poets, but owing to a series of accidents the bulk of her work was lost to posterity. The fragments that do survive, however, give a tantalising glimpse of a unique voice of Greek literature. Her work has lived on in other languages, too, translated by such major poets as Ovid, Christina Rossetti and Baudelaire.

  With

  Edith HallProfessor of Classics at King's College, London

  Margaret ReynoldsProfessor of English at Queen Mary, University of London

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  Dirk ObbinkProfessor of Papyrology and Greek Literature at the University of OxfordFellow and tutor at Christ Church, Oxford

  Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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