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Article: Sappho's Immortal Daughters.
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 1998
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Sappho's Immortal Daughters. By Margaret Williamson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 196. $24.95.)
This is an intriguing book. Demonstrating a thorough understanding of the scholarly debate, Margaret Williamson steps back from the literature to take a fresh look at Sappho, the seventh-century B.C.E. poet of Lesbos. Regarded by her peers and followers for almost 2,600 years as a significant artist, the moral character of Sappho has been the subject of great controversy almost equally as long.
Williamson weaves a rich tapestry of the socio-political context that has surrounded Sappho and takes the slender surviving threads of her life ...