There's not enough Sappho to really study apparently, well according to wikipedia that is. Wiki says that although most of her work was well revered throughout antiquity, only a very small portion of her nine volumes remain. This small portion is basically rubbish papyrii and I think a substancial amount can be found on some bit of pottery somewhere?
So basically our main taste of the works of this fascinating poet is found through other authors from around antiquity, such as our friend Catullus. However, I think there have actually been discoveries of larger portions that are in Greek and English somewhere, therefore we can study Sappho. XD
That lovely little rant was inspired by my most favourite procrastination device. If only I learnt how to type in subjects that were relevant to the coming trials. Please, anyone, feel free to rant about Thucydides or something. Anything useful that will help me pass Greek is most appreciated. XD
For some reason sleeping on the floor or talking about things irrelevant to everything seems more interesting than studying for trials in Frees that are under a week away from today. Terrible!
Thucydides is slowly eating my brain and my patience for it is waring thin.
I agree, anything but Thucydides...I can't really think of any other Greek author I'd really like to do at the moment, except maybe Herodotus, but I do have a strong desire to do some Ovid for perfectly innocent reasons of course.
This long rant is reflective of my need to be able to write in coherent sentences by the start of next week and also the long-winded never ending style of Thucydides.
I need to stop "english-ing" in translation.
