ERINNA TO BAUCIS With an Epigram by Antipater of Sidon
New York: Privately Printed, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Two folio sheets folded into fours, 7-3/4" x 10-1/2", printing the papyrus fragment of the poem along with a full-page commentary by Marylin B. Arthur who did the translation along with Daniel Haberman. Drawing by Cornelia Brendel Foss. Copy #32 of 300 printed by hand on handmade paper and SIGNED by Haberman. This copy also INSCRIBED by Haberman to R'Lene Dahlberg, wife of Edward Dahlberg. Fine. Item #019417
Erinna was an ancient Greek poet, possibly a contemporary of Sappho. She is best known for her long poem, the DISTAFF, a three-hundred line hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly after marriage. This fragment comes from that poem.
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