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Greek Lyric: Sappho and Alcaeus
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| Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Fiction literature | 23 August 2008 |
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 This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers
of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of
antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war,
and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods. Also included
are the principal testimonia, the ancients' reports on the lives and
work of the two poets.
BILINGUAL
Greek (some latin in Testimonia) on left page, English translation on the adjoining page. |
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| Tags: Alcaeus, Greek, Sappho, ancients, reports |
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 From antiquity, the phenomenon of speech has been an object of both general curiosity and scientific inquiry. Over the centuries, much effort has been devoted to the study of this remarkable process whereby our eating and breathing apparatus is used to transform thoughts in the mind of a speaker into vibrations in the air and back into congruent thoughts in the mind of a listener. Although we still do not have satisfactory answers to many of the questions about speech and language that the ancients pondered, we do have substantial scientific knowledge of the subject and an evolving technology based on it.
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| Tags: thoughts, speech, scienti64257c, language, ancients |
