Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation

A scholarly edition combining a concise memoir of the ancient Greek lyric poet with the original Greek fragments, literal English translations, and a selection of freer renderings. The editor provides prefaces that survey manuscript and papyrus discoveries, the history of the text, and editorial choices, accompanied by notes, bibliography, and a small number of illustrations and photographic reproductions. Readers encounter critical commentary on variant readings and interpretive problems, metrical and linguistic observations, and comparative versions by other translators to illuminate the surviving lyric remnants.