Searching for Sappho
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Freeman, Philip, 1961– author. | Sappho. Works. English. 2016.
Title: Searching for Sappho : the lost songs and world of the
first woman poet : including new translations of all of Sappho’s
surviving poetry/Philip Freeman.
Description: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015039760 | ISBN 9780393242232 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Sappho. | Greek poetry—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PA4409 .F74 2015 | DDC 884/.01—dc23 LC record
available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015039760
ISBN 978-0-393-24224-9 (e-book)
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