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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 ...
Sappho's poetry is known for its clear language and simple thoughts, sharply-drawn images, and use of direct quotation that brings a sense of immediacy. [97] Unexpected word-play is a characteristic feature of her style. [98]
While Sappho used several metrical forms for her poetry, she is most famous for the Sapphic stanza. Her poems in this meter (collected in Book I of the ancient edition) ran to 330 stanzas, a significant part of her complete works, and of her surviving poetry: fragments 1-42. Sappho's most famous poem in this metre is Sappho 31, which begins as ...
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. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman.
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.
The Midnight poem is a fragment of Greek lyric poetry preserved by the Alexandrian grammarian Hephaestion. [1] It is possibly by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, and is fragment 168 B in Eva-Maria Voigt's edition of her works.
Aphrodite, the subject of Sappho's poem. This marble sculpture is a Roman copy of Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos. The poem is written in Aeolic Greek and set in Sapphic stanzas, a meter named after Sappho, in which three longer lines of the same length are followed by a fourth, shorter one. [15]
He argues that there are other known exceptions to the alphabetical ordering of the first Alexandrian edition of Sappho's works, thematic reasons why the Brothers Poem might have been placed out of order to follow closely after fragment 5, [109] and parallels elsewhere in Greek literature for an inceptive ἀλλά. [110]