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"Sappho's Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhabit the mind of the greatest love poet the world has ever known. At the age of fourteen, Sappho is seduced by the beautiful poet Alcacus, plots with him to overthrow the dictator of the island, and is caught and married off to a repellent older man in hopes that matrimony will keep her out of trouble.
Instead, this unhappy union starts her off on a series of amorous adventures, taking her from Delphi to Egypt, and even to the Land of the Amazons and the shadowy realm of Hades." "Throughout her travels, Sappho gives birth to and loses a daughter, becomes the most famous singer of the ancient world, and learns to understand the forces that have shaped her life.".
"Complemented by Erica Jong's new translations of Sappho's fragments, as well as nine of Jong's own poems about the epic poet who shaped all our understandings of poetic verse, Sappho's Leap is not to be missed. Fearless, heroic, yet full of vulnerability, Jong's Sappho is one of her most unforgettable and exuberant heroines."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, Greeks, Women poets, History, Fiction, erotica, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, historical, Greece, fiction, Fiction, erotica, general, Fiction, historical, generalPeople
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Egypt, Lesbos Island (Greece), GreeceTimes
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"THE LESBOS OF my childhood was an enchanted land."
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