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Today, most of Sappho's poetry is lost. The two major sources of surviving fragments of Sappho are quotations in other ancient works, from a whole poem to as little as a single word; and fragments of papyrus, many of which were discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. [20] A few fragments survive on other materials, including parchment and potsherds ...
Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter (c. 510 BC) Sappho (/ ˈ s æ f oʊ /; Greek: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. [a] Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by ...
Soon after the discovery of P. Sapph. Obbink was made public in January 2014, scholars began to raise questions about its provenance.The initial version of Obbink's article announcing the discovery said that the papyrus was in a private collection, but did not discuss its origin or ownership history, as would be usual when reporting on a newly-discovered ancient artefact; C. Michael Sampson ...
Denys Page argues against attributing the poem to Sappho on the basis of its dialect, which he believes is not the Aeolic dialect used by Sappho. [1] He identifies three separate features which he does not believe are consistent with the archaic Lesbian dialect found elsewhere in the works of Sappho and Alcaeus. [ 20 ]
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho is a book by the Canadian classicist and poet Anne Carson, first published in 2002. It contains a translation of the surviving works of the archaic Greek poet Sappho , with the Greek text on facing pages, based on Eva-Maria Voigt 's 1971 critical edition .
Inspired by the writing on Sappho by Algernon Swinburne, including Swinburne's poem Anactoria, Solomon believed Erinna to have been a companion of Sappho on Lesbos during the late 7th century BC (a common misconception at that time, possibly due to a fragment of Sappho's poetry mentioning "Eranna").
Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. [a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line, and as the Ode to Anactoria, based on a conjecture that its subject is Anactoria, a woman mentioned elsewhere by Sappho.
The Tithonus poem, also known as the Old age poem or (with fragments of another poem by Sappho discovered at the same time) the New Sappho, [a] is a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho. It is part of fragment 58 in Eva-Maria Voigt 's edition of Sappho.