Sappho and her influenceRobinson, David M. (David Moore)
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Sappho and her influence
Robinson, David M. (David Moore)
Sappho -- Influence
[22] Cf. also Epigr. LXX, Jacobs, II, p. 25; Plut., _Amat._, XII, p. 42.
[23] P. 186 (1921).
[24] 280, pp. 817-818. Cf. also _Posthumous Essays_ in _Sat. Rev._, Feb.
21, 1914.
[25] Professor Scribner in _The Classical Weekly_ XV, 1921, p. 78, says
“there still is room for a work giving a complete critical treatment of
Sappho’s influence on ancient and modern literature down to our own time.”
[26] Athenaeus, 599 c; _Oxyr. Pap._, XV. 1800.
[27] Strabo, 618; Athenaeus, 85 c.
[28] Cf. Herodotus, II. 135; Schol. Plato, _Phaedrus_, 235 c; _Ox. Pap._,
XV. 1800. The papyrus gives Scamandrus, which is otherwise known as a
good Lesbian name, as well as Scamandronymus. Scamandrus like Suidas’
Scamon is an abbreviation or _Kosenamen_.
[29] _Her._, XV. 61.
[30] Confirmed by the new papyrus. The more correct form would be Clévis
(Κλεῦις or Κλεῖϊς) after the founder of Lesbus, who was named Κλεύας,
Strabo, 582.
[31] Cf. Edmonds, pp. 144-147.
[32] Hiller von Gaertringen, _Inschriften von Priene_, 18; for Erygyius
cf. also Diodorus, XVII. 81, 83; Arrian, III. 6, 5.
[33] The name occurs as a love-name on the interior of an Attic cylix
in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, signed by Hieron (480 B.C.),
published in _American Journal of Archaeology_, XXVII. 274 (1923). Near
a female figure dancing to the accompaniment of the double flute played
by a satyr is the inscription, “Beautiful Rhodopis.” Cf. also Lucian, _De
Saltatione_, 2.
[34] Cf. Poulsen, _Delphi_, London, 1920, pp. 31, 72, 205, 294.
[35] Edmonds’ first poetical translation is given in his _Sappho in
the Added Light of the New Fragments_, p. 8; but he gives a revised
prose version in the _Classical Review_, XXXIV. 5-6 (1920) and in _Lyra
Graeca_, I, p. 207.
[36] Solmsen in _Rhein. Mus._, LVI. 502, 1 (1901) gives arguments for the
spelling with double p.
[37] 599 c.
[38] γέγονε often means flourished, not “was born.” Those who put
Sappho’s birth as late as 610 forget this.
[39] Strabo, 617, also makes Sappho contemporary with Pittacus and
Alcaeus. Eusebius puts the _floruit_ of Sappho in the first year of the
forty-fifth Olympiad (599 B.C.). Edmonds, _Lyra Graeca_, I, p. 142,
adopts the reading Ol. 45, 2 (598 B.C.), but this would be rather the
date of her exile.
[40] The abbreviation E, is used throughout for Edmonds, _Lyra Graeca_,
vol. I.
[41] Cf. Prinz, _Funde aus Naukratis_, 1906, pp. 57 ff.
[42] II. 134.
[43] In another fragment (E. 35) Edmonds calls Sappho “an old bird,” but
this is a very dubious restoration based on only three preserved letters.
[44] _Flor._, XXIX. 58.
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