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The Ode to Aphrodite (or Sappho fragment 1 [a]) is a lyric poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, in which the speaker calls on the help of Aphrodite in the pursuit of a beloved.
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.
In 1508, a collection of Greek rhetorical works edited by Demetrios Doukas and published by Aldus Manutius made a poem by Sappho (the Ode to Aphrodite) available in print for the first time; [28] in 1554, Henri Estienne was the first to collect her poetry when he printed the Ode to Aphrodite and the Midnight poem after a collection of fragments ...
Ambrose Philips' 1711 translation of the Ode to Aphrodite portrayed the object of Sappho's desire as male, a reading that was followed by virtually every other translator of the poem until the 20th century, [144] while in 1781 Alessandro Verri interpreted fragment 31 as being about Sappho's love for Phaon. [145]
In 1930 she was given a copy of Henry Thornton Wharton's translation of the poetry of Sappho as a birthday present. This inspired her to adapt fragments of Sappho, such as in "Love Poem", a four-line adaptation of the twenty-eight-line "Ode to Aphrodite". [3] In 1933, she began a correspondence with the poet Ezra Pound, sending him six of her ...
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; [12] a fifth, the Brothers Poem, was discovered in 2014. The poem is written as an exhortation to a group of young women, putting forward the singer as an example to emulate. [13]
Sappho is thought to have written around 10,000 lines of poetry, of which only around 650 survive. Only one poem, the Ode to Aphrodite, is known to be complete; many preserve only a single word. [1] In 2014, Dirk Obbink, Simon Burris, and Jeffrey Fish published five fragments of papyrus, containing nine separate poems by Sappho.
Sappho 2 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho.In antiquity it was part of Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry. Sixteen lines of the poem survive, preserved on a potsherd discovered in Egypt and first published in 1937 by Medea Norsa.