Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho Deep in grief

Deep in grief

deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts

and must face many dangers including plague

obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales

At its centre is Achilles

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho Deep in griefBy 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