Sappho and her influenceRobinson, David M. (David Moore)
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Sappho and her influence
Robinson, David M. (David Moore)
Sappho -- Influence
Showing probably Sappho’s head on one side and lyre on other. Enlarged
twice the original size. Reproduced from Miss Patrick, _Sappho and the
Island of Lesbos_, p. 73]
[Illustration: PLATE 11. IMPERIAL COINS
In the British Museum, representing Sappho. Reproduced from Miss Patrick,
_op. cit._, p. 81]
[Illustration: PLATE 12. A GREEK VASE
In Munich, representing Alcaeus and Sappho. Reproduced from
Furtwängler-Reichhold, _op. cit._, pl. 64]
[Illustration: PLATE 13. A BLACK-FIGURED CALPIS
Formerly in the Dzialinsky collection at Paris, now in Cracow, in the
style of the Nicoxenus painter, with the earliest (about 500 B.C.)
inscribed representation of Sappho]
[Illustration: PLATE 14. LOST LUCANIAN (?) VASE
Formerly in the Middleton collection. Sappho seated before a winged Eros
who is bringing her a wreath. Reproduced from _Museo Italiano_, II, 1888,
pl. III, 2]
[Illustration: PLATE 15. GREEK ARYBALLUS
In the style of the Meidias painter, in the Jatta collection at Ruvo,
representing Thamyris giving a musical recital in the presence of Apollo,
Aphrodite, and the Muses, among whom Sappho is included. Reproduced from
_Römische Mitteilungen_, III, 1888, pl. IX]
[Illustration: PLATE 16. A FIFTH CENTURY GREEK HYDRIA
From Vari near Athens, showing Sappho seated and reading from a papyrus.
According to Beazley the style is related to that of the Hector painter,
though not by him. Reproduced from _Jahreshefte_, VIII, 1905, p. 40, Fig.
9]
[Illustration: PLATE 17. PHAON ABOUT TO FERRY APHRODITE ACROSS THE SEA
On a Greek vase in Bologna. Reproduced from Pellegrini, _Catalogo dei
Vasi Greci dipinti delle Necropoli Felsinee_, Fig. 77]
[Illustration: PLATE 18. A POMPEIAN FRESCO
Supposed to represent Sappho and Alcaeus. Reproduced from
Herrmann-Bruckmann, _Denkmaeler der Malerei des Altertums_, pl. 28]
[Illustration: PLATE 19. AN ANCIENT BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO
In the Villa Albani, Rome. Reproduced from Arndt-Brunn-Bruckmann,
_Griechische und Römische Porträts_, pls. 147-148]
[Illustration: PLATE 20. THE OXFORD BUST, PROBABLY OF SAPPHO
Reproduced from _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, XXXVIII, 1918, pl. III]
[Illustration: PLATE 21. BUST PROBABLY OF SAPPHO
In the Borghese Palace, Rome. Photographed in the summer of 1922]
[Illustration: PLATE 22. STATUE OF SAPPHO
By Magni]
[Illustration: PLATE 23. A STATUE OF SAPPHO
By Pradier]
[Illustration: PLATE 24. RAPHAEL’S PARNASSUS
In the Vatican. Sappho is leaning on the left side of the doorway]
Our Debt to Greece and Rome
AUTHORS AND TITLES
1. HOMER. John A. Scott, _Northwestern University_.
2. SAPPHO. David M. Robinson, _The Johns Hopkins University_.
3A. EURIPIDES. F. L. Lucas, _King’s College, Cambridge_.
3B. AESCHYLUS AND SOPHOCLES. J. T. Sheppard, _King’s College, Cambridge_.
4. ARISTOPHANES. Louis E. Lord, _Oberlin College_.
5. DEMOSTHENES. Charles D. Adams, _Dartmouth College_.
6. ARISTOTLE’S POETICS. Lane Cooper, _Cornell University_.
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