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050 4 _aPQ
100 1 _aLouÿs, Pierre,
_d1870-1925
240 1 4 _aLes chansons de Bilitis. English
245 1 4 _aThe songs of Bilitis
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aPurported translation of ancient Greek poems, originally written in French by Pierre Louÿs.
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Bilitis
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-07
508 _aHannah Wilson, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _a"The Songs of Bilitis: Translated from the Greek" by Pierre Louÿs is a collection of erotic poetry published in 1894. Louÿs presented these lesbian love poems as ancient Greek works by Bilitis, a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, complete with fabricated scholarly apparatus including a fictional archaeologist's discovery. The pseudotranslation initially deceived experts before being exposed as Louÿs's original creation. The poems trace three phases of life—from childhood innocence through passionate same-sex love to melancholy reflection—blending sensuality with classical style while openly celebrating lesbian sexuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnknown: Privately printed, 1919
653 _aFrench poetry -- Translations into English
653 _aLesbians -- Poetry
700 1 _aBuck, Mitchell S.
_q(Mitchell Starrett),
_d1887-1959
856 4 _uhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Songs_of_Bilitis_Translated_from_the/dZFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76646
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