Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho At its centre is Achilles

At its centre is Achilles

His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood

she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora

abandoned time capsule where a great artist once lived

It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa'

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho At its centre is AchillesBy turns subversive, erotic and poignant, Sappho is one of the most versatile and exquisite poets in Classical literature. Invoking female deities, Sappho summons the Muses for inspiration and beseeches Aphrodite's allegiance in a battle of the heart, while episodes from the Trojan War are told from a woman's perspective as Helen makes her fateful choice between family and love, and Andromache arrives in Troy to marry Hector. Here, too, Sappho sings