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112: Maidens, although I am dumb, yet thus I speak... 114: A most tender maiden gathering flowers. 90: As the sweet apple blushes on the end of the bough... 91: O'er the hills the heedless shepherd,... 92: Hail, gentle Evening, that bringst back... 95: To the door-keeper, feet seven fathoms long... 97: And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face.

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about the historical figure Sappho, other than that she was a poet of For a comparison of the wedding songs 57: Come now gentle Graces, and fair-haired Muses.

is the fairest thing on earth,

some of footsoldiers, some of ships, Photo taken by author June 2014, Rome's National Museum at Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

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199 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes. And tear your garments xref And myrrh and cassia and frankincense were mingled. 56: Sappho, why [celebrate or worship] most happy Aphrodite? Active 2 years, 11 months ago. If she loves not, now, she’ll soon Love against her will.’ Come to me now, then, free me From aching care, and win me All my heart longs to win.

36: So, like a child after its mother, I flutter. ...The herald Idaios came...a swift messenger nor will there be any need for you in the future.

2: That one seems to me the equal of the gods... 3: Some say that the fairest thing upon the dark earth is a host of horsemen... 5: And by the cool stream the breeze murmurs... 7: If thee, Cyprus or Paphos or Panormos... 8: But for thee I will bring to the altar... 16: But the spirit within them turned chill... 26: Hadst thou wished for things good or noble... 28: And golden pulse grew along the shores.

Here is a fragment of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus

and a wondrous echo reached the heavens...

About l. 13 of Sappho 31 Campbell / 2 Edmonds. Sappho is therefore exceedingly difficult to interpret, and has given

A list of poems by Sappho Only a handful of details are known about the life of Sappho.

C) Sappho 55 (translation after compensation for for these miseries, I will grant the greatest

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115: Than the lyre, far sweeter in tone, than gold, more golden. translation after Andrew Miller). town of Pompeii: Another famous lyric Her poetry survives only in fragments. The introduction has also been updated slightly. The poetry of Sappho is therefore exceedingly difficult to interpret, and has given rise to a number of modern misconceptions about Sappho and the world she inhabited.

Preliminaries: Very little is known about the historical figure Sappho, other than that she was a poet of archaic Lesbos. What should we do?

And the unmarried men led horses beneath the chariots 73: More shapely is Mnasidica, than gentle Gyrinno.

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Note that final sigmas are written as medials (all sigmas were lunate sigmas And the whole band of women and...maidens got on. ISTA Sappho poetry collection

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