6. THE LEUCADIAN PROMONTORY. See text page 40. 7. ROMAN FRESCO. See text page 42. 8. A PAPYRUS OF THE THIRD CENTURY A.D. See text page 46. 9. A CYLIX BY SOTADES. See text page 93. 10. A GREEK COIN FROM MYTILENE. See text page 101. 11. IMPERIAL COINS. See text page 101. 12. A GREEK VASE. See text page 103. 13. A BLACK-FIGURED CALPIS. See text page 104. 14. LOST LUCANIAN (?) VASE. See text page 104. 15. GREEK ARYBALLUS. See text page 105. 16. A FIFTH CENTURY GREEK HYDRIA. See text page 106. 17. PHAON ABOUT TO FERRY APHRODITE ACROSS THE SEA. See text page 108. 18. A POMPEIAN FRESCO. See text page 108. 19. AN ANCIENT BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO. See text page 111. 20. THE OXFORD BUST, PROBABLY OF SAPPHO. See text page 112. 21. BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO. See text page 112. 22. STATUE OF SAPPHO. See text page 114. 23. A STATUE OF SAPPHO. See text page 115. 24. RAPHAEL’S PARNASSUS. See text page 117. [Illustration: PLATE 2. PITTACUS, LORD OF LESBUS One of the seven wise men of Greece, in whose reign Sappho was perhaps banished to Sicily. The bust was found in Asia Minor in a Roman villa (100 A.D.). Formerly in Baltimore in the collection of David M. Robinson, now in the Museum of Budapest. Cf. _The Annual of the Budapest Museum_, II, 1919-1920, p. 3. For other replicas cf. Lippold, _Griechische Porträt-Statuen_, p. 72] [Illustration: PLATE 3. MYTILENE Looking across the severing sea to Asia Minor] [Illustration: PLATE 4. THE STORY OF PHAON From a fifth century hydria in Florence by the Meidias painter himself. Phaon, tired of the ladies’ love-making, is seated in the middle below with the inscription “Phaon” over his head. Aphrodite is above in a chariot drawn by Pothos and Himeros. Reproduced from Milani, _Monumenti Scelti del R. Museo Archeologico di Firenze_, pl. III] [Illustration: PLATE 5. THE BEAUTIFUL PHAON On a Greek vase in Palermo. Reproduced from Furtwängler-Reichhold, _Griechische Vasenmalerei_, pl. 59] [Illustration: PLATE 6. THE LEUCADIAN PROMONTORY From an old engraving reproduced by Miss Patrick, _Sappho and the Island of Lesbos_, p. 96] [Illustration: PLATE 7. ROMAN FRESCO In an underground building found in Rome near the Porta Maggiore, showing to the left Apollo with lyre on the cliff, and to the right Sappho about to step off the rock into the sea, where a Triton waits with outspread garment. Behind Sappho higher up on the rock a winged Eros] [Illustration: PLATE 8. A PAPYRUS OF THE THIRD CENTURY A.D. With part of the text of a poem by Sappho. Reproduced from _Oxyrhynchus Papyri_, XV, 1922, No. 1787, fragment 1, pl. II] [Illustration: PLATE 9. A CYLIX BY SOTADES In the British Museum, representing a girl on tiptoe plucking the apple on the topmost bough. Reproduced from _White Athenian Vases in the British Museum_, pl. XVII] [Illustration: PLATE 10. A GREEK COIN FROM MYTILENE