Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)
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Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)

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Revival: Sappho - Poems and Fragments (1926)

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The object of this book is to provide with a popular and a comprehensive edition of Sappho, containing all that is so far known of her unique personality and her incompatible poems

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry--among them, poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation, and remembrance--that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Sappho is rated as the supreme poetess and is regarded in the same vein as Shakespeare and Homer the supreme poets.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781351239097
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Dedication
  7. SIGLA
  8. CONTENTS
  9. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  10. PREFACE
  11. INTRODUCTION
  12. 1. Lines to her poems inscribed on a hydria at Athens
  13. 2. Sappho to her Lyre
  14. 3. Prayer to Aphrodite for help in love
  15. 4. To a beloved girl
  16. 5. To Gongyla
  17. 6. To Atthis (?) about a friend at Sardis
  18. 7. Parting reminiscences of Atthis or another
  19. 8. Remembrance of Anactoria
  20. 9. Prayer to the Nereids for her brother (Charaxus)
  21. 10. To Cypris, of Doricha (and Charaxus ?)
  22. 11. Someone unnamed, reproached for desertion of her (?)
  23. 12. To Dika ( = Mnasidika ?)
  24. 13. A sarcastic salutation to Gorgo or Andromeda
  25. 14. Satirical reference to Andromeda
  26. 15. Satirical reference to Andromeda's new friend
  27. 16. Mnasidika compared with Gyrinno
  28. 17. Sarcastic reference to Gorgo
  29. 18. Atthis, her childhood's favourite
  30. 19. Reproach of Atthis on deserting her for Andromeda
  31. 20. Of Hero, her whilom pupil, But see Lobel on this
  32. 21. Gongyla is mentioned (with Hermes ?) in a mutilated poem
  33. 22a. Eiranna (?) the greatest of bores
  34. 22b. Possibly part of the same poem
  35. 23. To a girl-genius
  36. 24. To a rich uneducated woman
  37. 25. On her own immortality (cf. 59)
  38. 26. To a man admired for his beauty
  39. 27. To the poet Alcaeus—an answer
  40. 28. "Let still the woman take a nelder to herself
  41. 29. To a girl proud of her ring
  42. 30. To a girl, to steel her heart
  43. 31. Old age as the enemy of love (?)
  44. 32. Friends in youth (?)
  45. 33. Sappho loyal to her friends
  46. 34. Sappho sings to her friends
  47. 35. To a forgetful friend
  48. 36. Who has supplanted her in a friend's love ?
  49. 37. Ingratitude of friends
  50. 38. Mika mentioned, and the daughters of Penthilus
  51. 39. An Andromeda mentioned, and the Tyndarids
  52. 40. A friend likened to Helen
  53. 41. Old age and ἀβροσύνα
  54. 42. Pain and cares
  55. 43. Sappho in two minds
  56. 44. Sappho bears no malice
  57. 45. Lovers parted long and afar
  58. 46. Love shakes Sappho again
  59. 47. Love like a tempest shakes hersoul
  60. 48. " Tu, mea cura
  61. 49. " My true love's arms aroundme again " (?)
  62. 50. Be night a double night !
  63. 51. Golden-sandalled dawn (out of place, should go after 73)
  64. 52. As a child to its mother
  65. 53. O mother, I cannot spin to-night
  66. 54. Of Kleïs, her daughter
  67. 55. Sappho of herself (?)
  68. 56. Gifts of the Muses to Sappho
  69. 57. Sappho's fair lot from the Muses
  70. 58. Sappho cannot touch the sky
  71. 59. Posterity will remember her (cp. 25)
  72. 59a. Oblivion
  73. 60. Oblivion, odious to the Muses
  74. 61. Dirges suit not a Muse-lover's home
  75. 62. Sappho's " good counsel " to wardsthe Gods (?)
  76. 63. Beauty and goodness
  77. 64. Death not a boon
  78. 65. Keep silence in anger
  79. 66. Wealth without worth not to be desired
  80. 67. Gold imperishable by rust
  81. 68. Stir not the shingle
  82. 69. " No money for me, if it meaneth a bee ! "
  83. 70. " A bay where all men ride
  84. 71. A lonely night vigil
  85. 72. A cool and drowsy orchard
  86. 73. Earth with many a garland set
  87. 74. Vetches on a river's bank
  88. 75. Stars pale before the moon
  89. 76. Maidens in the moonlight round an altar (cf. 82)
  90. 77. A girl gathering flowers
  91. 78. Young girls weaving garlands
  92. 79. Doves drooping their wings in death
  93. 80. The cicala's song at noon
  94. 81. The sheen of the hyacinth
  95. 82. Cretan girls dancing round an altar (cf. 76)
  96. 83. The heaven-haunting swallow
  97. 84. The nightingale, the angel of the spring
  98. 85. A storm at sea (?)
  99. 86. Daphne (?)
  100. 87. To a Dream
  101. 88. Prayer to Aphrodite
  102. 89a. Aphrodite invoked
  103. 89b. To pour out her nectar (i.e. love poetry)
  104. 90. The death of Adonis, a dialogue between Aphrodite and Maidens
  105. 91. The Refrain : " Ah, for Adonis ! "
  106. 92. " Ah, for Adonis ! "
  107. 93. " Sing the wedding song ! "
  108. 94. Sappho sees Aphrodite in a dream
  109. 95. Offering of a white kid
  110. 96. Libation of wine
  111. 97. Kerchiefs and Phocaean " fairings " for Aphrodite
  112. 98. Sappho and her prayers to Aphrodite
  113. 99. [Sappho] and Eros, Aphrodite's minister
  114. 100. Eros in purple cloak come from heaven
  115. 101. The genealogy of Eros
  116. 102 Eros the causer of heartache, the weaver of fancies
  117. 103. [Aphrodite] calls (Eros) her child
  118. 104. Minister of the Cyprus-born
  119. 105. Peitho, the daughter of Aphrodite
  120. 106. Hecate (or Peitho), Aphrodite's handmaid
  121. 107. A dream - dialogue with Hera
  122. 108. Apollo and the Muses
  123. 109. Kalliopé
  124. 110. Sappho addressed; Andromeda and Phaethon mentioned
  125. 111. Leto and Niobe once fast friends
  126. 112. Leda and the egg
  127. 113. Prometheus and the theft of fire
  128. 114. Selené and Endymion
  129. 115. Theseus and the tribute to Minos
  130. 116. Linus called by Sappho Oitolinus
  131. 117. Sappho's hymns to Artemis (?) imitated by Damophyla
  132. 118. Muses invoked
  133. 119. Graces invoked
  134. 120. Graces and Muses invoked
  135. 121. Hail Bride, hail Bridegroom
  136. 122. Hail Bride, hail Bridegroom
  137. 123. No bride like thine, O Bridegroom
  138. 124. The bridegroom has won his heart's desire
  139. 125. To what shall the bridegroom be likened ?
  140. 126. The bride's charms
  141. 127. Invocation of the bride
  142. 128. Sweet sleep for the bridegroom
  143. 129. Invocation of Hesperus
  144. 130. Hesperus, fairest of stars
  145. 131. Lost virginity
  146. 132. " Single blessedness
  147. 133. The last apple of autumn
  148. 134. The hyacinth trodden down by the wayside
  149. 135. Dialogue between the Bride and her Virginity
  150. 136. Enter the Bridegroom !
  151. 137. The bridegroom pre-eminent among all
  152. 138. A jest at the doorkeeper's feet
  153. 139. The doorkeeper's pride of ancestry
  154. 140a. Hermes wine-pourer to the Gods
  155. 140b. Pledging the bridegroom
  156. 141. The home-coming of Hector and Andromaché
  157. 142. A serenade to the married pair
  158. 143. A wedding song at dawn
  159. 144. Soft wraps for the bride
  160. 145. A soft cushion
  161. 146. A cushion put in place
  162. 147. A Lydian sandal
  163. 148. An all-night slumber
  164. 149. Sleep lies on tired eyes
  165. 149a. Ares and Hephaestus
  166. 150. A father's wedding gift
  167. 151. I love and I long
  168. 152. [Jason's] mantle of many colours
  169. 153. While ye will
  170. 154. With what eyes . . . ?
  171. 155. [Love] scorches the heart
  172. 156. Prosperity (?) and Health
  173. 156a. Old age and Youth
  174. 157. Gello, lover of children
  175. 158. A dripping napkin
  176. 159. More golden than gold, and similar hyperboles
  177. 160. Epithets for girls
  178. 161. The whole fabric of Sappho's poetry
  179. 162. Sappho's choice of beautiful words and subjects
  180. The following are very possibly not by Sappho :—
  181. Hereafter follow poems relating to Sappho or attributed to her :—
  182. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  183. VOCABULARY, GLOSSARY, AND INDEX OF NAMES