Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. Summary Fragment 1 is an extended address from Sappho to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Urn:oclc:29510346 Republisher_operator Scandate 20111118221554 Scanner . For Stanley Lombardo, whose Sappho: Poems and Fragments (2002) offers a selection of about a quarter of the fragments, the truncated remains are like beautiful, isolated limbs. In 1879 more poems of hers were discovered in an ancient Egyptian rubbish heap, and other fragments have been found as shreds in mummy wrappings and as stuffing. Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho. OL18178125W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 73.81 Pages 86 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0374524211

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Sappho the poems and fragments