Words can be an incantation; the right verse can summon desire and a depth of feeling that can seem at odds with the quiet act of reading. Heart rates can rise as readers quietly turn the page, ...

Pascal Productions has announced the launch of a Greek-language production of SAPPHO, written by Wendy Beckett and translated into Greek by Daphne Economou. The international theatrical production ...

A classicist at McGill University, Carson has mined Greek literature, and Sappho in particular, to tremendous effect and acclaim in her poetry and essays. Her prose Eros the Bittersweet (1986) ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An ...

Sappho, the ancient Greek poetess who is the subject of this one-woman show, is remarkable as much for what we don’t know about her as what we do. Given the potential left wide open by the lack of any ...

Due to its location on a tectonic fault line, Lesbos also has a range of hot springs. At Polichnitos, the water bubbles up at ...

Anne Carson’s new translation of the poetry of Sappho seems an act of veneration. Sappho is the most archaic and mysterious, and probably the most celebrated, of ancient lyric poets; later Greeks ...

An experiment in form, After Sappho is told in the collective voice and uses the pronoun “we” to knit together biographical anecdotes from the lives of many historical women, including Virginia Woolf, ...