Mycenaean Linear B fragments from the Ashmolean Museum (British Museum):
Mycenaean Linear B fragments from the Ashmolean Museum (British Museum)
Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.
Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.
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2 responses to “Mycenaean Linear B fragments from the Ashmolean Museum (British Museum)”
Love these fragments because they are about my favourite Mycenaean subject.
Ha ha! That is for sure!