Sappho (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Franz Grillparzer
- First Published: 1819
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Sixth century
- Setting: Lesbos, Greece
- Principal Characters: Sappho, Phaon, Melitta, Rhamnes
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Immortality, Poetry or poets, Genius, Islands, Legends, Life and death, Greek or Roman times, Sixth century, Greece or Greek people, Aging
- Locales: Islands, Greece, ancient, Aegean Sea, Lesbos, ancient
The Story:
Sappho, beloved by all and treated as if she were the queen of her native island of Lesbos, went to Olympia to compete for the prize to be awarded for poetry and song. As the result of her genius, she won the laurel wreath accorded the victor and returned in triumph to her island home. To the surprise of those on Lesbos, she brought back with her a handsome, pleasant, but very young man named Phaon, with whom she had fallen deeply in love. Phaon, having heard the poems of Sappho read in his father’s home, had great admiration for the poet before he journeyed to...
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