Download or read book The Newest Sappho written by Anton Bierl and published by Brill. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Newest Sappho" Anton Bierl and Andre Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of Sappho that were published in 2014. This set of papyrus fragments, the greatest find of Sappho fragments since the beginning of the 20th century, provides significant new readings and additions to five previously known songs of Sappho (frs. 5, 9, 16, 17 and 18), as well as the remains of four previously unknown songs, including the new Brothers Song and the Kypris Song. The contributors discuss the content of these poems as well as the consequence they have for our understanding of Sappho s life and work."