Sappho: Memoir, text, selected renderings, and a literal translation

Those modern critics who reject the whole story as fabulous derive it from the myth of the love of Aphrodite and Adonis, who in the Greek version was called Phaëthon or Phaon. T...

SAPPHO, the one great woman poet of the world, who called herself Psappha in her own Aeolic dialect (in fragments 1 and 59), is said to have been at the zenith of her fame about...

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The two fragments, distinguished by Blass as A. and B., occur, the one on the front, the other on the back of the scrap of parchment. They were edited by Bergk, in the fourth (p...

Besides these, Antiphanes and Plato (the Comic writer, not the philosopher) each wrote a play called _Phaon_. Of that by Antiphanes but three words remain. Plato's drama is seve...

'It is something natural that people who fancy themselves beautiful and elegant should be fond of flowers; on which account the companions of Persephone are represented as gathe...

But lo, to Sappho's melting airs Descends the radiant queen of Love: She smiles, and asks what fonder cares Her suppliant's plaintive measures move: Why is my faithful maid dist...

Athenaeus, speaking of the charm of lovers' eyes, says Sappho addressed this to a man who was admired above all others for his beauty. Bergk thinks it may have formed part of an...

Here, fairest Rhodope, recline, And 'mid thy bright locks intertwine, With fingers soft as softest down, The ever verdant parsley crown. The Gods are pleased with flowers that b...

DACIER, ANNE LEFÈVRE: Les poésies d'Anacréon et de Sapho traduites de Grec en François, avec des Remarques, par Madame Dacier. Nouvelle édition augmentée des Notes Latines de Mr...

_Athenæum._--"There is urgent need for a collected edition of Mr. Davidson's poems and plays. The volume and the variety of his poetry ought to win for it wider acceptance. It i...