Poetry for Students, Volume 31

quoted by other authors and survived in the pre- served texts of later writers. Others of Sappho’s original papyrus texts surviv ...

educate young girls, although those are uncertain. She supposedly founded a school in Mytilene, where she taught music,poetry, a ...

Stanza 2 The second stanza continues with a description of the gardenlike setting that the poet has invited Aphrodite to visit. ...

Greeks, aesthetics were about the merging of sense stimulations to create beauty. Beauty could be per- ceived via sight, sounds, ...

Sappho gathers her young female students, her thiasosof believers who worship Aphrodite. In Sap- pho’s private community, then, ...

imagery creates an idealized setting for the worship of Aphrodite. The spring flowers also symbolize marriage and fertility,and ...

human in spite of their supernatural foundation. That is, these gods were usually men or women whose behaviors were governed by ...

Greek Life on Lesbos Sappho is thought to have been part of the aris- tocracy. Although exact information about her parentage is ...

Critical Overview. There is a surprising amount of information about how Sappho’s work was received in ancient Greece. This is s ...

present in Sappho’s world on Lesbos, where young women gathered to study poetry and songs and to worship Aphrodite. As a result, ...

Sappho’s poetry is that of a close friend and not just a goddess. A significant portion of Sappho’s composi- tions took the form ...

Sappho’s setting and in the heavenly world of the Greek gods. The setting that Sappho describes in her poem—the garden with rose ...

Incomplete texts illuminate the criteria, strategies, tactics, and alternatives available for any rendering. Quotations and papy ...

On the other hand, early editions of the Greek, such as Edmonds’ Sappho, contain large-scale reconstruction. Edmonds fills in wh ...

Fragments can engage the reader’s imagination by actually using the breaks. Poems of recollection or memory have inherent possib ...

Source:Diane J. Rayor, ‘‘Translating Fragments,’’ in Translation Review, No. 32–33, 1990, pp. 15–18. Thomas McEvilley In the fol ...

In purple-rosed meadows is the space before their city and shadowy with incense-fume and heavy with golden fruits, and some with ...

THE POEM We may approach the mood of Sappho’s grove by comparing the only other long descrip- tion of nature in early Greek lyri ...

The lyric can be viewed as an effort to ‘objectify’ or ‘project’ inner life. But such ‘pro- jection’ is possible only in terms o ...

variety of sensuous details which makes the mood of approach and nearness unmistakable (2.1–4, my translation): Hither to me fro ...