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GREEK POET SAPPHO BUST 20" HIGH
ITEM NUMBER: TEZL387
SIZE: 20" HIGH
FEATURED FINISH: AS SHOWN
MEDIUM: BONDED STONE
SCULPTOR: ELEGANZA
SAFE FOR OUTDOOR USE?: F
SHIPPING AND HANDLING FEE: $29.95
TIME TO SHIP: MADE TO ORDER - 2-3 WEEKS
PRICE: $ 356.00
This bronze colored bust of Sappho of Lesbos, the Greek poet, is sculptured soft, smooth, and very feminine, almost contemporary. It is cast in bonded stone.The poet Sappho was greatly loved for her personification of love and caring, and creativity. Her soft warm beauty and original lyric poetry was especially appreciate by the women of her time. Sappho's poetry was so rhythmical, usually accompanied by music and dance, that it gained the reputation for being the Divine Inspiration of the Muses. About Greek Poet SapphoThe poet Sappho was born on the Aegean island of Lesbos about 615 BC. To the Greeks Homer was The Poet and Sappho was the Poetess. Plato called her The Tenth Muse.Those who know the language of ancient Greece have long ago convinced us that much of the beauty of Greek lyric verse is lost in English translation. The Greeks appreciation of the poetry of Sappho gave her the recognition as one of the greatest of women poets and the greatest of all lyric poets.The Greek poet Sappho was married and the mother of a child but her poetry reveals her sexual attraction to girls with whom she was associated. Our English word for sexual love between women is derived from Lesbos the name of the island which Sappho lived. The poet Sappho beautifully describes her imagery and the intensity of her poetry transcends sexual reference. It is poetry lifted to an ethereal plain. It is said that Sappho every word has a perfection and inimitable grace.The original bronze head, found on the site of the Thracian Perinthos, is a Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BC.
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