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Article: Sappho's lost sessions.(discovered poem)
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Sappho has come out with a new poem: not bad for someone who's been dead for about 2600 years.
A little over a year ago, Martin L. West, an emeritus fellow of All Souls College Oxford, announced in the Times Literary Supplement (June 24, 2005) a discovery that has raised goosebumps on the arms of classicists and lovers of poetry worldwide. Two scholars at the University of Koln, Michael Gronewald and Robert Daniel, had deciphered part of a papyrus roll, dating from the third century BC, which had been thriftily recycled, soaked with water, and used to wrap a mummy. Some of what they found was by Sappho.
West published a reconstruction of the Greek with ...