Sappho and her influenceRobinson, David M. (David Moore)
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Sappho and her influence
Robinson, David M. (David Moore)
Sappho -- Influence
[135] Cf. for influence of Pamphos, a mythical poet earlier than Homer,
Pausanias, IX. 29, 8; of Homer, _Neue Jahrbücher_, XXXIII 227 (1914); De
Courten, pp. 74-76.
[136] E. 114 influenced by _Theogony_, 3 ff.; E. 122 by _Works and Days_,
568; E. 81 by _Theogony_, 121.
[137] Theognis, 1017.
[138] Schol. Hesiod, _Works and Days_, 428.
[139] Athenaeus, 554 b, 639 a.
[140] Porphyrio on Horace, _Satires_, II. 1. 30, “ostendit Sapphonem et
Alcaeum volumina sua loco sodalium habuisse.”
[141] Wilamowitz, _Textgeschichte der Bukoliker_, p. 88.
[142] III. 153 f.; VI. 1181.
[143] Wilamowitz, _Sappho und Simonides_, p. 58, 2. There is an enormous
literature on Catullus’ relation to Sappho and much discussion of textual
matters. Cf. for the most recent _Bursian Jahresbericht_, CLXXVIII, 1919,
p. 46. Compare E. 32, 147 and 149 with Catullus LXII, 26, 35; E. 151
with LXII, 61; E. 148 with LXII. In XXXV, 17-18 we have “Ignosco tibi,
Sapphica puella Musa doctior.”
[144] _The Classical Quarterly_, XVI. 1-14 (1922).
[145] IV. 9. 10.
[146] II. 13. 24.
[147] Cf. Ogle, _A. J. P._, XLIII. 55 ff. (1922). For Sappho’s influence
on Horace cf. Pasquali, _Orazio lirico_, 1920. Most of the literature on
the subject is not fit to read. Cf. Richard F. Burton’s _The Book of the
Thousand Nights and a Night_, Terminal Essay, X, p. 208, for a filthy,
wrong interpretation of the word ‘mascula’. It is surprising to find as
great a modern scholar as Bloch, _Die Prostitution_, Berlin, 1912, I,
p. 383, saying in his discussion of Homosexuality, ἀσέλγεια τριβακή,
“Schon in früher Zeit galten Sparta und die Insel Lesbos als Orte, wo
die weibliche Liebe besonders verbreitet war und an letzterem Ort in
der Dichterin Sappho eine weltberühmte Vertreterin fand.” Cf. also on
_tribadie_ in Lesbos Bloch, _Der Ursprung der Syphilis_, II, pp. 586-588,
where he thinks that he gives definite proof that Sappho was “eine echte
Tribade.” It is lamentable that as great a literary critic as J. A.
Symonds should say that “Sappho gave this female passion an eminent place
in Greek Literature;” see J. A. Symonds, _A Problem in Greek Ethics,
An Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion_, London, 1901, pp.
70-72. Fortunately the monograph was issued only in a very limited
edition.
[148] _Silvae_, V. 3. 154.
[149] VII. 69.
[150] _Symp._, VII. 8. 2.
[151] XIX. 9. 4.
[152] _Loves_, 30.
[153] _On Paid Companions_, 36; _Pictures_, 18.
[154] On the influence of Sappho on Himerius cf. Rizzo, _Saggio su Imerio
il sofista_, in _Riv. Fil. Cl._, XXVI 513-16 (1898). In _Orations_, I. 4
the words τὸ λέχος Ὁμήρου were incomprehensible and Edmonds still omits
Ὁμήρου, but the reading is undoubtedly correct and the significance is
now apparent from the new epithalamium of Hector and Andromache.
[155] XV. 35, 36, 37.
[156] I. 16, 19, 20.
[157] Cf. _Anth. Pal._, V. 246; VII. 14, 15, 16, 17, 407, 718; IX. 26,
66, 184, 189, 190, 506, 521, 571; XVI. 310.
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