Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho she is revered and feared

she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora

obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales

and must face many dangers including plague

Deep in grief

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho she is revered and fearedBy turns subversive, erotic and poignant, Sappho is one of the most versatile and exquisite poets in Classical literature. Invoking female deities, Sappho summons the Muses for inspiration and beseeches Aphrodite's allegiance in a battle of the heart, while episodes from the Trojan War are told from a woman's perspective as Helen makes her fateful choice between family and love, and Andromache arrives in Troy to marry Hector. Here, too, Sappho sings