In Sappho's Journal, bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her loves, her sense of beauty, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. Beautifully illustrated by the author, also well known as an artist.
In Sappho's Journal, bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her loves, her sense of beauty, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. Beautifully illustrated by the author, also well known as an artist.
