title: Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
author:  Philip Freeman 
description: Philip Freemans <em>Searching for Sappho</em> provides students and general readers with readable translations and interpretations of all the surviving poems and fragments, including those most recently discovered. As it reconstructs Sapphos life, it offers a lively picture of ancient Greek womens daily experience within their families and communities. Finally, it conveys a sense of the excitement generated in the last two decades by the unexpected recovery of several new Sappho texts. Soundly researched yet wholly accessible, this volume is a complete and rewarding introduction to one of the worlds greatest poets.<br /> - <strong>Marilyn B. Skinner, professor of classics emerita, University of Arizona</strong><br /><br />An authoritative, insightful narrative.<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus</em></strong>
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  THE LOST FATHER
  
  
  
  
  
  Marina Warner
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “ _My Faithful Mother Tongue._ ” _Copyright © 1968 by Czeslaw Milosz
  Royalties, Inc From_ The Collected poems 1951-1987. _First published by the
  Ecco Press in 1988. Reprinted by permission._
  
  
  “ _Makin_ ’ _Whoopee_ ” _by Gus Kahn and Wolter Donaldson. Copyright 1928 WB
  Music_ _Corp,_ ( _renewed_ ) _. All rights reserved. Used by permission._
  
  
  “ _Stormy Weather, Keeps Rainin’ All the Time_ ” _, music by Harold Arlen,
  words by Ted Koehler. Copyright 1933_ ( _renewed 1960_ ) _by_ _Mills Music
  Inc. c/o Filmtrax Copyright Holdings Inc. All rights reserved._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  
  _I would like to thank The Getty Center for the History of Art and the
  Humanities for the visiting scholarship it gave me in_ _1987-88, and the staff
  of the center for their generous help._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  Permissions
  
  
  Acknowledgement
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  Epigraph
  
  
  Map
  
  
  Principal characters
  
  
  PART ONE – _ROSA_
  
  
  Chapter 1: The Snail Hunt I