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The most impressive is the Brothers Poem fragment, called P. Sapph. Obbink, [2] part of a critical edition of Book I of Sappho's poetry. [b] [5] The remaining four fragments, P. GC. inv. 105 frr. 1–4, are written in the same hand, and have the same line-spacing. [6] P. Sapph.
The fragments of Sappho's poems are arranged in the editions of Lobel and Page, and Voigt, by the book from the Alexandrian edition of her works in which they are believed to have been found. Fragments 1–42 are from Book 1, 43–52 from Book 2, 53–57 from Book 3, 58–91 from Book 4; 92–101 from Book 5, 102 from Book 7, 103 from Book 8 ...
Fragments of Sappho continue to be rediscovered. Major discoveries were made in 2004 (the "Tithonus poem" and a new, previously unknown fragment) [80] and 2014 (fragments of nine poems: five already known but with new readings, four, including the "Brothers Poem", not previously known). [81]
Fragment 31 is composed in Sapphic stanzas, a metrical form named after Sappho and consisting of stanzas of three long followed by one short line. [b] Four strophes of the poem survive, along with a few words of a fifth. [1] The poem is written in the Aeolic dialect, which was the dialect spoken in Sappho's time on her home island of Lesbos. [8]
Fragment one of the papyrus preserves four consecutive fragments; frr. 15, 16, 17, and 18 in Voigt's edition. [6] Also preserved, on fragment 56 of the papyrus, is the final poem of Book I of Sappho, fragment 30. [7] A colophon at the end of fragment 56 of the papyrus shows that Sappho's Book I contained 1320 lines, or 330 stanzas. [7]
The Tithonus poem is twelve lines long, [11] and is in a metre called "acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion". [12] It is the fourth poem by Sappho to be sufficiently complete to treat as an entire work, along with the Ode to Aphrodite, fragment 16, and fragment 31; [13] a fifth, the Brothers Poem, was discovered in ...
Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. [a] It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known from a second-century papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Alcaeus and Sappho, Attic red-figure calathus, c. 470 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2416). Alcaeus of Mytilene (/ æ l ˈ s iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios; c. 625/620 – c. 580 BC) [1] [2] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza.