Our Debt to Greece and Rome EDITORS GEORGE DEPUE HADZSITS, PH.D. _University of Pennsylvania_ DAVID MOORE ROBINSON, PH.D., LL.D. _The Johns Hopkins University_ [Illustration] CONTRIBUTORS TO THE “OUR DEBT TO GREECE AND ROME FUND,” WHOSE GENEROSITY HAS MADE POSSIBLE THE LIBRARY Our Debt to Greece and Rome _Philadelphia_ DR. ASTLEY P. C. ASHHURST JOHN C. BELL HENRY H. BONNELL JASPER YEATES BRINTON GEORGE BURNHAM, JR. JOHN CADWALADER MISS CLARA COMEGYS MISS MARY E. CONVERSE ARTHUR G. DICKSON WILLIAM M. ELKINS H. H. FURNESS, JR. WILLIAM P. GEST JOHN GRIBBEL SAMUEL F. HOUSTON CHARLES EDWARD INGERSOLL JOHN STORY JENKS ALBA B. JOHNSON MISS NINA LEA GEORGE MCFADDEN MRS. JOHN MARKOE JULES E. MASTBAUM J. VAUGHAN MERRICK EFFINGHAM B. MORRIS WILLIAM R. MURPHY JOHN S. NEWBOLD S. DAVIS PAGE (_memorial_) OWEN J. ROBERTS JOSEPH G. ROSENGARTEN WILLIAM C. SPROUL JOHN B. STETSON, JR. DR. J. WILLIAM WHITE (_memorial_) GEORGE D. WIDENER MRS. JAMES D. WINSOR OWEN WISTER The Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Liberal Studies. _Boston_ ORIC BATES (_memorial_) FREDERICK P. FISH WILLIAM AMORY GARDNER JOSEPH CLARK HOPPIN _Chicago_ HERBERT W. WOLFF _Cincinnati_ CHARLES PHELPS TAFT _Cleveland_ SAMUEL MATHER _Detroit_ JOHN W. ANDERSON DEXTER M. FERRY, JR. _Doylestown, Pennsylvania_ “A LOVER OF GREECE AND ROME” _New York_ JOHN JAY CHAPMAN WILLARD V. KING THOMAS W. LAMONT DWIGHT W. MORROW MRS. D. W. MORROW ELIHU ROOT MORTIMER L. SCHIFF WILLIAM SLOANE GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM And one contributor, who has asked to have his name withheld: Maecenas atavis edite regibus, O et praesidium et dulce decus meum. _Washington_ The Greek Embassy at Washington, for the Greek Government. _The following lovers of Greek literature, and of Sappho in particular, have kindly consented to act as patrons and have made possible, by generous contributions, the larger size of this volume in the Series “Our Debt to Greece and Rome”_: MR. CHARLES H. CAREY MR. JAMES CAREY MISS LILLIE DETRICK PROFESSOR JOSEPH CLARK HOPPIN MRS. HARRY C. JONES MRS. GARDINER M. LANE MISS EMMA MARBURG DR. JOHN RATHBONE OLIVER MISS JULIA R. ROGERS PROFESSOR HERBERT WEIR SMYTH DR. HUGH H. YOUNG [Illustration: PLATE 1. ALMA TADEMA’S SAPPHO In the Walters’ Art Gallery, Baltimore] SAPPHO AND HER INFLUENCE BY DAVID M. ROBINSON, PH.D., LL.D. _W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology and Epigraphy and Lecturer on Greek Literature The Johns Hopkins University_ [Illustration]