The Songs of Bilitis

About “The Songs of Bilitis”

The Songs of Bilitis is a collection of erotic, essentially lesbian, poetry by Pierre Louýs, published in Paris in 1894. Louýs claimed to have translated the poems from Ancient Greek, making the work a pseudotranslation, since the poems were in fact his own fabulations, still regarded as important literature, in the manner of Sappho. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)