Ode To Aphrodite Comments

The nectar is mixed in goblets of gold. A garland awaits you. Come, Aphrodite you come. With wings of sparrow this poem finely welcomes minds of readers. Amazing sharing.10

Much of Sappho's work was lost in Alexandria when the great Library was destroyed. But thanks to fortunate discoveries and patient work by excellent scholars some works have been restored in the last 100 years. Even so my up to date version of her current work covers only about 40 pages. Many are one line fragments only. All parts are minutely indexed and noted. Luckily Sappho often says things in one line where another poet might say less in three pages! She strikes me as someone of very sharp wit and a generosity of spirit. She had a freedom which few Greek women enjoyed. Tom

Wow! It truly deserves the '' Wow '' word; perfectly executed in those old sweet-written words, that melt upon the lips of the reader, scented with a fragrance of myrtle in summer-time Cyprus... '' tempting '' to dreaming dreams of Eros and Romantic Love and Poesy and Wine and...