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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 ...
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.
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.
The speaker is identified in the poem as Sappho, in one of only four surviving works where Sappho names herself. [21] The sex of Sappho's beloved is established from only a single word, the feminine εθελοισα in line 24. This reading, now standard, was first proposed in 1835 by Theodor Bergk, [22] but not fully accepted until the 1960s. [23]
In 2014, Dirk Obbink, Simon Burris, and Jeffrey Fish published five fragments of papyrus, containing nine separate poems by Sappho. Three were previously unknown, [a] and the find amounted to the largest expansion of the surviving corpus of Sappho's work for 92 years. [3] The most impressive is the Brothers Poem fragment, called P. Sapph.
This fragment [c] preserved part of 27 lines of Sappho's poetry, including the Tithonus poem. [d] The papyrus appears to be part of a copy of Book IV of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, as all of the poems appear to be in the same metre. [5] From the handwriting, the papyrus can be dated to the second century AD. [6]
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.
Sappho 94, sometimes known as Sappho's Confession, [1] is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho. The poem is written as a conversation between Sappho and a woman who is leaving her, perhaps in order to marry, and describes a series of memories of their time together.