The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Sappho (c. 630 BCE - c. 570 BCE)
Translated by John Myers O'Hara (1870 - 1944)

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

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Sapphics Eva Davis
00:23:24
Play 02 Epithalamia - Threnodes Eva Davis
00:10:00
Play 03 Partheneia - Didaktika Eva Davis
00:09:31
Play 04 Erotika - Dithyrambs Eva Davis
00:18:45
Play 05 Girl Friends Eva Davis
00:13:35
Play 06 Phaon Eva Davis
00:08:44
Play 07 Epigrams Eva Davis
00:02:19