Item #00009532 Sappho and the Vigil of Venus. Arthur S. Way.
Sappho and the Vigil of Venus

Sappho and the Vigil of Venus

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], vi-xv, [2], 2-36, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper, during the year of publication. Arthur S. Way edited together Sappho's fragments (around 170 of them) in an effort to convey to a general reader the eroticism and mystical nature of Sappho of Lesbos' odes and poems. He also includes an epithalamium honoring Venus, the goddess of love, and to a lesser extent Hera, the goddess of marriage. Way writes that this honorary ode evokes the spirit of Sappho, and comes from Hadrian's reign. The author notes that Hadrian greatly revived the worship of Venus, the goddess who most frequently evokes the spirit of Sappho. Very Good. Item #00009532

A Very Good copy with a bit of foxing to the margins of the leaves, front board slightly bowed.

Price: $125.00

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