Poetry of Sappho
Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives today.
Textual history
Sappho probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry; today, 650 survive.[1] Around the second century BC, these were edited into a critical edition by scholars in Alexandria. The Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry was divided up into a number of books: the exact number is uncertain, though there seem to have been at least eight.[2] These books were probably divided up by metre, as ancient sources tell us that each of the first three books contained poems in a single specific metre.[3]
In addition to the Alexandrian edition, at least some of Sappho's poetry was in circulation in the ancient world in other collections. The Cologne Papyrus on which the Tithonus poem is preserved was part of a Hellenistic anthology of poetry.[4]
Today, most of Sappho's poetry is lost. The two major sources of surviving fragments of Sappho are quotations in other ancient works, from a whole poem to as little as a single word, and fragments of papyrus, many of which were discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.[5] Other fragments survive on other materials, including parchment and potsherds.[6] The oldest surviving fragment of Sappho currently known is the Cologne papyrus which contains the Tithonus poem;[7] it dates back to the third century BC.[8]
Poems
Fragment Number | Sources | Meter | lines |
---|---|---|---|
Fragment 1 | P. Oxy. 2288; D.H. Comp. 23 | Sapphic stanza | 28 |
Fragment 2 | PSI 1300 | Sapphic stanza | 17[lower-alpha 1] |
Fragment 3 | P. Berol. 5006; P. Oxy. 424 | Sapphic stanza | 18 |
Fragment 4 | P. Berol. 5006 | Sapphic stanza | 10 |
Fragment 5 | P. Oxy. 7; P. Oxy. 2289; P. GC | Sapphic stanza | 20 |
Fragment 6 | P. Oxy. 2289 | perhaps Sapphic stanza | 15 |
Fragment 7 | P. Oxy. 2289 | Sapphic stanza | 7 |
Fragment 8 | P. Oxy. 2289 | 5 | |
Fragment 9 | P. Oxy. 2289; P. GC | Sapphic stanza | 20 |
Brothers Poem[lower-alpha 2] | P. Oxy. 2289; P. Sapph. Obbink | Sapphic stanza | 24 |
Fragment 12 | P. Oxy. 2289 | Sapphic stanza | 9 |
Fragment 15[lower-alpha 3] | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 12 |
Fragment 16 | P. Oxy. 1231; PSI 123; P. GC | Sapphic stanza | 20[lower-alpha 4] |
Fragment 16A | P. Oxy. 1231; PSI 123; P. GC | Sapphic stanza | 12 |
Fragment 17 | PSI 123; P. Oxy. 1231; P. Oxy. 2166(a); P. Oxy. 2289; P. GC | Sapphic stanza | 20 |
Fragment 18 | P. Oxy. 1231; P. GC | 15 | |
Fragment 18A | P. GC | 9 | |
Fragment 19 | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 12 |
Fragment 20 | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 24 |
Fragment 21 | P. Oxy. 1231; Apollonius Dyscolus | Sapphic stanza | 15 |
Fragment 22 | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 19 |
Fragment 23 | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 14 |
Fragment 24a | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 8 |
Fragment 24b | P. Oxy. 2166 | Sapphic stanza | 5 |
Fragment 24c | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 9 |
Fragment 24d | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 7 |
Fragment 25 | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 7 |
Fragment 26 | P. Oxy. 1231, P. Sapph. Obbink | Sapphic stanza | 16 |
Fragment 27 | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 13 |
Fragment 28a | P. Oxy. 1231 | 4 | |
Fragment 28b | P. Oxy. 1231 | 5 | |
Fragment 28c | P. Oxy. 1231 | 5 | |
Fragment 29a | P. Oxy. 1231 | 4 | |
Fragment 29b | P. Oxy. 1231 | 5 | |
Fragment 29c | P. Oxy. 1231; P. Oxy. 2166 | 11 | |
Fragment 29d | P. Oxy. 1231 | 4 | |
Fragment 29e | P. Oxy. 1231 | 3 | |
Fragment 29f | P. Oxy. 1231 | 7 | |
Fragment 29g | P. Oxy. 2081 | 4 | |
Fragment 29h | P. Oxy. 2166 | 8 | |
Fragment 29i | P. Oxy. 2166 | 5 | |
Fragment 30 | P. Oxy. 1231 | Sapphic stanza | 9 |
Fragment 31 | Longinus | Sapphic stanza | 17 |
Fragment 32 | Apollonius Dyscolus | Sapphic stanza | 2 |
Fragment 33 | Apollonius Dyscolus | Sapphic stanza | 2 |
Fragment 34 | Eustathius | Sapphic stanza | 5 |
Fragment 35 | Strabo | Sapphic stanza | 1 |
Fragment 36 | Etymologicum Genuinum | Sapphic stanza? | 1 |
Fragment 37 | Etymologicum Genuinum | Sapphic stanza | 3 |
Fragment 38 | Apollonius Dyscolus | Sapphic stanza | 1 |
Fragment 39 | Scholiast on Aristophanes Peace | Sapphic stanza | 3 |
Fragment 40 | Apollonius Dyscolus | Sapphic stanza | 2 |
Fragment 41 | Apollonius Dyscolus | Sapphic stanza | 2 |
Fragment 42 | Scholiast on Pindar | Sapphic stanza | 2 |
Fragment 43 | P. Oxy. 1232 | ]-uu-ux, possibly Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 9 |
Fragment 44 | P. Oxy. 1232 | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 34[lower-alpha 5] |
Fragment 44Aa | P. Fouad. 239 | ]-uu-uu-ux, possibly Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 12 |
Fragment 44Ab | P. Fouad. 239 | xx-uu-[ | 10 |
Fragment 45 | Apollonius Dyscolus | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 1 |
Fragment 46 | Herodian | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 2 |
Fragment 47 | Maximus of Tyre | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 2 |
Fragment 48 | Julian | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 2 |
Fragment 49 | Hephaestion; Plutarch | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 2[lower-alpha 6] |
Fragment 50 | Galen | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 2 |
Fragment 51 | Chrysippus | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion | 1 |
Fragment 52 | Herodian | Glyconic with 2x dactylic expansion? | 1 |
Fragment 53 | Scholiast on Theocritus | Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion | 1 |
Fragment 54 | Julius Pollux | Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion | 1 |
Fragment 55 | Stobaeus | Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion | 4 |
Fragment 56 | Chrysippus | Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion | 3 |
Fragment 57 | Athenaeus | ll.1–2 uncertain; l.3 Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion | 3 |
Pre-58 (Oxyrhynchus) | P. Oxy. 1787 | Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion[13] | 10 |
Pre-58 (Cologne) | P. Köln inv.21351+21376 | Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion[14][lower-alpha 7]} | 8 |
Fragment 58 | P. Oxy. 1787; P. Köln inv.21351+21376 | Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion | 12 |
Post-58 (Oxyrhynchus) | P. Oxy. 1787 | Acephalous Hipponacteans with internal double-choriambic expansion | 4 |
Fragment 59 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 3 | |
Fragment 60 | P. Halle. 3 | ]-uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 11 |
Fragment 61 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 2 | |
Fragment 62 | P. Oxy. 1787 | x-uu--uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 12 |
Fragment 63 | P. Oxy. 1787 | x-uu--uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 10 |
Fragment 64a | P. Oxy. 1787 | 15 | |
Fragment 64b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 4 | |
Fragment 65 | P. Oxy. 1787 | x-uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 11 |
Fragment 66a | P. Oxy. 1787 | 3 | |
Fragment 66b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 4 | |
Fragment 66c | P. Oxy. 1787 | 3 | |
Fragment 67a | P. Oxy. 1787 | x-uu-[, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 8 |
Fragment 67b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 7 | |
Fragment 68a | P. Oxy. 1787 | ]uu--uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 12 |
Fragment 68b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 6 | |
Fragment 69 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 3 | |
Fragment 70 | P. Oxy. 1787 | ]--uu-[ | 14 |
Fragment 71 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 8 | |
Fragment 72 | P. Oxy. 1787 | ]uu--uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 8 |
Fragment 73a | P. Oxy. 1787 | -]uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 9 |
Fragment 73b | P. Oxy. 1787 | -]uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 3 |
Fragment 74a | P. Oxy. 1787 | 6 | |
Fragment 74b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 3 | |
Fragment 74c | P. Oxy. 1787 | 4 | |
Fragment 74d | P. Oxy. 1787 | 3 | |
Fragment 75a | P. Oxy. 1787 | 8 | |
Fragment 75b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 5 | |
Fragment 75c | P. Oxy. 1787 | 5 | |
Fragment 76 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 7 | |
Fragment 77a | P. Oxy. 1787 | 9 | |
Fragment 77b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 6 | |
Fragment 77c | P. Oxy. 1787 | 4 | |
Fragment 78 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 7 | |
Fragment 79 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 6 | |
Fragment 80 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 6 | |
Fragment 81 | P. Oxy. 1787; Athenaeus | acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 7 |
Fragment 82a | Hephaestion | acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 1 |
Fragment 82b | P. Oxy. 1787 | acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 5 |
Fragment 83 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 7 | |
Fragment 84 | P. Oxy. 1787 | 7 | |
Fragment 85a | P. Oxy. 1787 | 4 | |
Fragment 85b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 3 | |
Fragment 86 | P. Oxy. 1787 | ]-uu--uu-u-x, possibly acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 8 |
Fragment 87a | P. Oxy. 1787 | 9 | |
Fragment 87b | P. Oxy. 1787 | 4 | |
Fragment 87c | P. Oxy. 1787 | 2 | |
Fragment 87d | P. Oxy. 2166 | 10 | |
Fragment 87e | P. Oxy. 2166 | 4 | |
Fragment 87f | P. Oxy. 2166 | 8 | |
Fragment 88a | P. Oxy. 2290 | -[ ]u--uu-u[-x|| x-[ ]--uu-[u-x|| -[ ]uu-u-x||| | 28 |
Fragment 88b | P. Oxy. 2290 | -[ ]u--uu-u[-x|| x-[ ]--uu-[u-x|| -[ ]uu-u-x||| | 10 |
Fragment 90a | P. Oxy. 2293 | 47[lower-alpha 8] | |
Fragment 90b | P. Oxy. 2293 | 15[lower-alpha 9] | |
Fragment 90c | P. Oxy. 2293 | 7 | |
Fragment 90d | P. Oxy. 2293 | 18 | |
Fragment 90e | P. Oxy. 2293 | 4 | |
Fragment 91 | Hephaestion | acephalous hipponacteans with 2x choriambic expansion | 1 |
Fragment 92 | P. Berol. 9722 | xx-u[ | 16 |
Fragment 93 | P. Berol. 9722 | ]uu-u- | 5 |
Fragment 94 | P. Berol. 9722 | glyconic || glyconic || glyconic with dactylic expansion||| | 29 |
Fragment 95 | P. Berol. 9722 | -u-xx-[ xx-uu-[ xx-uu-u[ (possibly the same as fr.96) | 16 |
Fragment 96 | P. Berol. 9722 | creticus; 3x glyconics; baccheus||| | 36 |
Fragment 97 | P. Berol. 9722 | uncertain | 27[lower-alpha 10] |
Fragment 98a | Pap. Haun. 301 | glyconic||glyconic||creticus glyconic||| | 12 |
Fragment 98b | Pap. Mediol. 32 | glyconic||glyconic||creticus glyconic||| | 9 |
Fragment 100 | Pollux | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 101 | Athenaeus | perhaps: glyconic||glyconic||glyconic with dactylic expansion||| | 4 |
Fragment 101A | Demetrius | uncertain; perhaps glyconic||hipponactean|| | 4 |
Fragment 102 | Hephaestion | iambus glyconic bacchius | 2 |
Fragment 103 | P. Oxy. 2294 | 10 | |
Fragment 103Aa | P. Cair. Mediol. 7 | 9 | |
Fragment 103Ab | P. Cair. Mediol. 7 | 4 | |
Fragment 103B | P. Oxy. 2308 | ]--uu--[ | 5 |
Fragment 103Ca | P. Oxy. 2357 | 8 | |
Fragment 103Cb | P. Oxy. 2357 | 6 | |
Fragment 104a | Demetrius | l.1: 6 dactyls catalectic, l.2 iamb|pherecratean with 2x dactylic expansion | 2 |
Fragment 104b | Himerius | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 105a | Syrianus on Hermogenes | 6 dactyls catalectic | 3 |
Fragment 105b | Demetrius | 6 dactyls catalectic | 2 |
Fragment 106 | Demetrius | 6 dactyls catalectic | 1 |
Fragment 107 | Apollonius Dyscolus | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 108 | Himerius | 1 | |
Fragment 109 | Homeric Parsings | 1 | |
Fragment 110 | Hephaestion | pherecratean with dactylic expansion | 3 |
Fragment 111 | Hephaestion | uncertain, perhaps pherecratean||iamb||acephalous pherecratean with dactylic expansion||iamb||| | 8 |
Fragment 112 | Hephaestion | choriambus bacchius choriambus bacchius|| | 5 |
Fragment 113 | Dionysius of Halicarnassus | 3x ionics? | 2 |
Fragment 114 | Demetrius | l.1 3 choriambus bacchius; l.2 uncertain | 2 |
Fragment 115 | Hephaestion | pherecratean with 2x dactylic expansion | 2 |
Fragment 116 | Servius | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 117 | Hephaestion | 3 iambs catalectic? | 1 |
Fragment 117A | Hesychius | 1 | |
Fragment 117Ba | Marius Plotius Sacerdos | 1 | |
Fragment 117Bb | Marius Plotius Sacerdos | 1 | |
Fragment 118 | Hermogenes | uncertain | 2 |
Fragment 119 | Scholiast on Aristophanes Plutus | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 120 | Etymologicum Magnum | glyconic with choriambic expansion | 2 |
Fragment 121 | Stobaeus | uncertain | 2 |
Fragment 122 | Athenaeus | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 123 | Ammonius | creticus hipponactean? | 1 |
Fragment 124 | Hephaestion | --uu-uu-(x-u-u--) | 1 |
Fragment 125 | Scholiast on Aristophanes' Thesmophoriasuzae | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 126 | Etymologicum Genuinum | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 127 | Hephaestion | ithyphallicus|ithyphallicus|| | 1 |
Fragment 128 | Hephaestion | 3cho ba | 1 |
Fragment 129a | Apollonius Dyscolus | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 129b | Apollonius Dyscolus | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 130 | Hephaestion | gld | 4 |
Fragment 132 | Hephaestion | uncertain | 3 |
Fragment 133 | Hephaestion | ia 2io anacl | 2 |
Fragment 134 | Hephaestion | 3 io anacl | 1 |
Fragment 135 | Hephaestion | 3 io | 1 |
Fragment 136 | Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra | pher2d | 1 |
Fragment 137 | Aristotle | Alcaic | 7 |
Fragment 138 | Athenaeus | ia ^gl or ia ^gl ia | 2 |
Fragment 139 | Philo | 2 | |
Fragment 140 | Hephaestion | pher2c | 2 |
Fragment 141 | Athenaeus | ll.1 and 4 ^pher? ll.2-3 and 5-6 uncertain | 6 |
Fragment 142 | Athenaeus | 6 da^ (pher3d) | 1 |
Fragment 143 | Athenaeus | 6 da^ (pher3d) | 1 |
Fragment 144 | Herodian | glxd | 2 |
Fragment 145 | Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius | 1 | |
Fragment 146 | Tryphon | pherd | 1 |
Fragment 147 | Dio Chysostom | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 148 | Scholiast on Pindar | uncertain | 2 |
Fragment 149 | Apollonius Dyscolus | pherxd? | 1 |
Fragment 150 | Maximus of Tyre | gl2c? | 2 |
Fragment 151 | Etymologicum Genuinum | pherc | 1 |
Fragment 152 | Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius | glxd? | 2 |
Fragment 153 | Atilius Fortunatianus | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 154 | Hephaestion | ^gl ba|| | 2 |
Fragment 155 | Maximus of Tyre | cr| ^hippd or cr ^gl | 1 |
Fragment 156 | Demetrius | possibly gl2d | 2 |
Fragment 157 | Etymologicum Genuinum | Sapphics? | 1 |
Fragment 158 | Plutarch | 2 ad? | 2 |
Fragment 159 | Maximus of Tyre | uncertain | 1 |
Fragment 160 | Athenaeus | Sapphics? | 2 |
Fragment 161 | P. Bouriant | 1 | |
Fragment 162 | Choeroboscus | 1 | |
Fragment 163 | Julian | 1 | |
Fragment 164 | Apollonius Dyscolus | 1 | |
Fragment 165 | Apollonius Dyscolus | 1 | |
Fragment 166 | Athenaeus | glc | 2 |
Fragment 167 | Athenaeus | glxd | 1 |
Fragment 168 | Marius Plotinus Sacerdos | Sapphics? | 1 |
Fragment 168A | Etymologicum Genuinum | gl? | 1 |
Fragment 168B | Hephaestion | ^hipp|| | 4 |
Fragment 168C | Demetrius | Alcaics? | 1 |
Glosses
These fragments are isolated words quoted by other ancient authors, arranged alphabetically.
Fragment Number | Sources |
---|---|
Fragment 169 | Scholiast on the Iliad |
Fragment 169A | Hesychius, Lexicon |
Fragment 170 | Strabo, Geography |
Fragment 171 | Photius, Lexicon |
Fragment 172 | Maximus of Tyre, Orations |
Fragment 173 | Choeroboscus on Theodosius |
Fragment 174 | Orion, Lexicon |
Fragment 175 | Apollonius Dyscolus, Adverbs |
Fragment 176 | Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae |
Fragment 177 | Julius Pollux |
Fragment 179 | Phrynichus |
Fragment 180 | Hesychius |
Fragment 181 | Scholiast on Dionysius of Thrace |
Fragment 182 | Scholiast on the Iliad |
Fragment 183 | Porphyry on the Iliad |
Fragment 184 | Choeroboscus on Theodosius |
Fragment 185 | Philostratus, Images |
Fragment 186 | John of Alexandria |
Fragment 187 | Homeric Parsings |
Fragment 188 | Maximus of Tyre |
Fragment 189 | Phrynichus |
Fragment 190 | Scholiast on the Iliad |
Fragment 191 | Julius Pollux |
Fragment 192 | Julius Pollux |
Testimonia
Fragment Number | Sources |
---|---|
Fragment 194 | Himerius |
Fragment 194A | Michaelis Italici |
Fragment 195 | Demetrius |
Fragment 196 | Aristides |
Fragment 197 | Libanius |
Fragment 198a | Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius |
Fragment 198b | Scholiast on Theocritus |
Fragment 198c | Pausanius |
Fragment 199 | Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius |
Fragment 200 | Scholiast on Hesiod |
Fragment 201 | Aristotle |
Fragment 203a | Athenaeus |
Fragment 203b | Eustachius |
Fragment 203c | Scholiast on Iliad |
Fragment 204a | Scholiast on Pindar |
Fragment 204b | Pausanias |
Fragment 205 | Aulius Gellius |
Fragment 206 | Servius on Virgil |
Fragment 207 | Servius on Virgil |
Fragment 208 | Himerius |
Fragment 209 | Eustachius |
Fragment 210 | Scholiast on Theocritus |
Fragment 211a | Pseudo-Paelephatus |
Fragment 211b | Pliny |
Fragment 211c | Aelian |
Fragment 212 | Comes Natalis |
Fragment 213 | P. Oxy. 2292 |
Fragment 213Aa | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ab | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ac | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ad | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ae | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Af | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ag | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ah | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ai | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213Ak | P. Oxy. 2506 |
Fragment 213B | PSI (Ommaggio all' XI congresso internationale di papirologia, Florence 1965, 16s.) |
Fragment 214 | Pausanias |
Fragment 215 | Demetrius |
Fragment 216 | Philostratus |
Fragment 217 | Philostratus |
Fragment 218 | Himerius |
Fragment 219 | Maximus of Tyre |
Fragment 220 | Himerius |
Fragment 221 | Himerius |
Fragment 222 | Menander |
Fragment 223 | Philostratus |
Fragment 224 | Horace |
Fragment 225 | Horace |
Fragment 226 | Scholiast on metre of Pindar |
Fragment 227 | Hephaestion |
Fragment 228 | Hephaestion |
Fragment 229 | Hephaestion |
Fragment 230 | Caesius Bassus |
Fragment 231 | Atilius Fortunatianus |
Fragment 232 | Hephaestion |
Fragment 233 | Photius |
Fragment 234 | Servius on Virgil |
Fragment 235 | Suda |
Fragment 236 | Hephaestion |
Fragment 237 | Dionysius of Halicarnassus |
Fragment 238 | Atilius Fortunatianus |
Fragment 239 | Marius Victorinus |
Fragment 240 | Scholiast on Hephaestion |
Fragment 242 | Marius Victorinus |
Fragment 243 | Servius |
Fragment 244 | Seneca |
Fragment 245 | Strabo |
Fragment 246 | Aristoxenus |
Fragment 247 | Menaechmus |
Fragment 248 | Suda |
Fragment 249 | Eusebius |
Fragment 250 | Athenaeus |
Fragment 251 | Parian marble |
Fragment 252 | P. Oxy. 1800 |
Fragment 253 | Suda |
Fragment 254a | Herodotus |
Fragment 254b | Strabo |
Fragment 254c | Athenaeus |
Fragment 254d | Photius |
Fragment 254e | Suda |
Fragment 254f | Appian |
Fragment 254g | Tzetzes |
Fragment 255 | Scholiast on Plato |
Fragment 256 | Aelian |
Fragment 257 | Suda |
Fragment 258 | Maximus of Tyre |
Fragment 259 | Scholiast on Lucian |
Fragment 260a | Horace |
Fragment 260b | Porphyrio |
Fragment 260c | Dionysius Latinus |
Fragment 261 | Ovid |
Fragment 262 | Tatian |
Fragment 263 | Heroides 15 |
Fragment 264 | Strabo |
Uncertain authorship
Fragments which may be by either Sappho or Alcaeus of Mytilene.
Fragment Number | Sources | Lines |
---|---|---|
Fragment 1 | Scholiast to Odyssey | 1 |
Fragment 2 | Etymologicum Genuinum | 1 |
Fragment 3 | Apollonius Dyscolus | 1 |
Fragment 4 | Homeric Parsings | 1 |
Fragment 5a | Herodian | 1 |
Fragment 5b | Herodian | 1 |
Fragment 5c | Herodian | 1 |
Fragment 6 | Anonymous grammarian | 1 |
Fragment 10 | Herodian | 2 |
Fragment 11 | Herodian | 1 |
Fragment 12 | Homeric Parsings | 1 |
Fragment 14 | Homeric Parsings | 1 |
Fragment 15a | Zenobius | 1 |
Fragment 15b | Scholiast on Aelius Aristides | 1 |
Fragment 16 | Hephaestion | 3 |
Fragment 18 | Anonymous | 2 |
Fragment 19 | Apollonius Dyscolus | 1 |
Fragment 20 | Zonaras | 1 |
Fragment 21 | Hephaestion | 2 |
Fragment 22 | Hephaestion | 1 |
Fragment 23 | Philodemus | 1 |
Fragment 25 | Scholiast on Theocritus | 1 |
Fragment 25A | Etymologicum Genuinum | 1 |
Fragment 25B | Etymologicum Magnum | 1 |
Fragment 25C | Eustathius | 2 |
Fragment 27 | P.Vind. 29777 | 3 |
Fragment 28 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 8 |
Fragment 29 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 2 |
Fragment 30 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 8 |
Fragment 31a | P. Oxy. 2299 | 15 |
Fragment 31b | P. Oxy. 2299 | 4 |
Fragment 32 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 11 |
Fragment 33 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 3 |
Fragment 34a | P. Oxy. 2299 | 17 |
Fragment 34b | P. Oxy. 2299 | 5 |
Fragment 35 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 8 |
Fragment 36a | P. Oxy. 2299 | 6 |
Fragment 36b | P. Oxy. 2299 | 4 |
Fragment 37 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 13 |
Fragment 38 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 3 |
Fragment 39 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 3 |
Fragment 40 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 4 |
Fragment 41 | P. Oxy. 2299 | 7 |
Fragment 42 | P. Oxy. 2378 | 16 |
Notes
- Voigt numbers the lines 1a, followed by 1–16;[9] line 1a is not in the Lesbian dialect and may not have been part of the original poem.[10]
- Follows fragment 9 in Alexandrian edition, called fr.9a by e.g. West 2014, overlaps with fr.11 LP (omitted from Voigt).
- Voigt has 15a and 15b
- Voigt gives 32 lines; P. GC shows that the final 12 lines of Voigt are a separate poem (16A)
- Voight numbers the lines up to 34, including l.3a, which is entirely lost[11]
- Though often presented as a single fragment, the lines come from two separate sources, and Rayor & Lardinois 2014 follow Parker 2006 in taking the fragments as separate.[12]
- West calls the base of the metre Hagesichoreans rather than Acephalous Hipponacteans;[15] Acephalous Hipponacteans is the standard terminology, however[3]
- Voigt divides 90a into Col. II, ll.1–27, and Col. III, ll.11–30
- Voigt numbers from l.5
- ll.1–12 and 19–23 are illegible
References
- Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 7.
- Yatromanolakis 1999, p. 181.
- Lidov 2011b.
- Clayman 2011.
- Rayor & Lardinois 2014, pp. 7–8.
- Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 8.
- West 2005, p. 1.
- Obbink 2011.
- Voigt 1971, p. 33.
- McEvilley 1972, p. 324.
- Voigt 1971, p. 66.
- Rayor & Lardinois 2014, p. 114.
- Lidov 2011a.
- Skinner 2011.
- Skinner 2011, note 2.
Works cited
- Clayman, Dee (2011). "The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Lidov, Joel (2011b). "Acceptance or Assertion: Sappho's New Poem in its Books". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Lidov, Joel (2011b). "The Meter and Metrical Style of the New Poem". Classics@. 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- McEvilly, Thomas (1971). "Sappho, Fragment 94". Phoenix. 25 (1).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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