EPISODE 10: CHRIS PREDDLE AND MILENA WILLIAMSON: SAPPHO

THE IRISH PAGES PODCAST NUMBER TEN

Chris Preddle talks to Irish Pages Managing Editor Milena Williamson about his recent translations of Sappho’s songs and poems, published by Irish Pages Press. He describes how he fell in love with Sappho’s poetry, the technical challenges of translating her work into English, the world of Lesbos in which she lived around 600 BCE, the different genres of poetry she wrote, and whether he considers her a feminist. He also reads several of her poems, both in his English translation and in the Ancient Greek.