Questions tagged [sappho]
Questions related to Sappho, Greek poet from the island of Lesbos (c. 630 – c. 570 BC) and her work. Use with [greek-literature]
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About l. 3 of the second stanza of Sappho's Ὠδὴ εἰς Ἀνακτωρίαν (Ode to Anactoria)
A long time ago, I translated all of Sappho's poems. In doing so, I had to reconstruct some parts of the texts, and do some amateur level criticism. One example of such work lies in the poem sometimes ...
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Who put forward this completion to Sappho 94, and what is it actually supposed to read?
In Sappho 94 (τεθνάκην δ' ἀδόλως θέλω), there is this tercet at ll. 25-27, which is very incomplete, which Edmonds doesn't even have, and which Bibliotheca Augustana and Campbell p. 69 both read:
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About Sappho's epigram for the little girl Aithopia: first line (manuscript tradition and experts' take), and authorship
Background and research
As I am planning to post this poem on my blog relatively soon, I was doing some research on the first line. From what I had written previously, I seem to have found two ...
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About Sappho's "Hector and Andromacha" poem
In a relatively short while, I'll have to write a blog post on this poem, so I've been doing some research into the sources. The first is P.Oxy. 1232, an image of which is the following.
A later ...