Green, Peter — Safo de Lesbos: La Sonrisa de Afrodita

Barcelona, Spain, Salvat Editores, 1998. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. An addition to a series of five Ancient Greece-themed tomes reprinted by the Barcelona-based publishing company, Salvat, in their series, Historias de Grecia y Roma. Printed, pictorial boards, 368 pp. plus a list of other publisher titles. Spanish language edition of Peter Green's masterful novel of Sappho of the Greek island of Lesbos, written while he was living there in the 1960s and 1970s, raising his family, originally titled "The Laughter of Aphrodite." From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa, 99 years old, nearly blind, but still working, in this case on a new translation and with annotations, of Herodotus, his favorite historian.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good