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Christina Bieber Lake, Nathan Gilmour, and Jay Eldred talk about some of Sappho’s poems about aging and death:

  • “But When You Lie Dead” (Lobel-Page 55);
  • “Girls, Chase the Violet-Bosomed Muses’ Bright” (Lobel-Page 58);
  • “But a Strange Longing to Pass On” (Lobel-Page 95);
  • “Kytherea, Precious Adonis Is Nearly Dead” (Lobel-Page 140);
  • “As You Are Dear to Me” (Voigt 121);
  • “Here Is the Reason” (Voigt 150);
  • “Someone, I Say” (Voigt 147).

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